Posts Tagged ‘Bicycle Import’
Children’s Bike Imports Up, Adults Down for Current Financial Year
Canberra, ACT As we previously reported, despite supply shortages, the 2020/2021 financial year was by far an all-time record for bicycle imports to Australia. But how is the current financial year faring so far? At the time of writing, we have Australian Customs import data for the first five months of the current financial year:…
Latest Import Data Reflects Covid Bike Boom Import Surge
As we all know, dealers and wholesalers have been short of bikes since not long after the pandemic broke out. But the latest data is strongly suggesting that this shortage is not due to a reduction of supply. In fact, imports have surged to record levels. It’s just that even these record imports have not…
August Import Data Shows the Depth of the Bike Shortage
Bicycle import numbers for August 2020 have now been released and they underline the relative inflexibility of the global bicycle supply chain. Only 122,581 bicycles were imported into Australia in August. This is up slightly on last year when 114,484 bikes were imported, but down on every other August for the previous decade, all the…