Scientific paper

Supply Chain Instability Threatens Security of Supplies

Günther Maihold and Fabian Mühlhöfer

The Covid pandemic has severely upset global supply chains. This disruption has now spread to many branches of industry, and consumers are starting to feel the impact. No short-term improvement is in sight, which has serious implications for manufac­turing processes all over the world. To begin with, the pandemic primarily affected personal protective equipment; however, the collapse in international trade has also created delivery bottlenecks in other sectors.

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German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)