No surprises that the latest Performance Manufacturing Index shows the North Island is in contraction and the South Island is in expansion. The North Island has obviously been hampered by Auckland’s situation at levels 4 & 3. In other news, we heard you loudly and clearly regarding your barriers to export from the annual ExportNZ DHL Export barometer. A significant number (43%) of respondents to that survey are manufacturers.
Rest assured we are publicising those barriers (see below) to Government Officials, all political parties and the media. Let’s hope we can make faster progress towards more normality reflecting that by world standards we are pretty highly vaccinated. We need to get back to work and travel, or there will be no work to get back to!
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