Shutdown CalendarWhen the factories that make your goods are closed
Chinese New Year is not a seven-day holiday. Output falls for weeks before it and takes weeks to recover after. The same is true of Golden Week, Eid, Diwali and the European August. This shows the real windows and, more usefully, the date by which you needed to have ordered.
Next six months
hatched: slowing or recovering · solid: closedEvery window, with its ordering deadline
| Window | Where | Closed | Starts in | Order by | Status |
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How to use this
The ordering deadline is the number that matters. It works back from the start of the shutdown by a typical lead time for that origin, so for China before New Year that is ninety days, covering production, inspection and a sailing. If your own lead time is longer, move your deadline earlier.
Three things catch importers out every year. Output starts falling well before the official holiday, because workers leave early. A share of workers do not come back afterwards, so the first batches after a reopening carry more quality risk. And third-party inspection agencies close at the same time as the factories, so a pre-shipment inspection has to be booked before the slowdown, not during it.
Windows marked estimated are derived from the lunar calendar and not yet officially announced. They will move by a day or two. Use them for planning, confirm with your supplier before committing to a date.