Does the Christmas present come in time?|rbb24

The toy industry has been doing well in recent years, sales year after year, 2020 again by nine percent.This was also due to Corona and the many time that people spend at home.But this success also brought problems."We have been concerned with the topic of delivery difficulties since the end of September. The delivery problems in some areas meet in our industry for a greatly increased demand for games, puzzles. This is clearly due to the circumstances during the pandemy," says Ulrich Brobeil, Managing Director of GermanAssociation of the toy industry (DSVI) in Nuremberg, RBB | 24.

About three quarters of all toys that are sold in Germany are manufactured in China.This was worth it because the raw material prices and wages are lower, the transport costs were also favorable.But now the price for the transport of a container has almost increased tenfold.

And the matter has also changed in the raw materials: wood, rubber, everything more difficult because plastic granules are also missing, toys made of plastic are scarce, be it dolls or animal figures.There is also a lack of computer chips for electronic toys, but also wood and paper.In some large plush animals, for example, the transport costs now exceed the value of the goods - the dealers then simply take them out of the shelves for a while, hoping that prices will fall again.