Parents shopping for back-to-school stationery could face price hikes and empty shelves, as logistics and materials pressures cause suppliers to ration goods.
The Australian Lottery and Newsagents Association has called on the federal government to ease white paper import duties, after timber shortages blocked production at Australia’s last white paper mill in Victoria.
“There’s some rationing sort of going on around the amount that we can order but we’ve still got product on shelves,” association chief executive Ben Kearney told AAP.
“Down the line we might start to see that situation where there’s a lack of availability.”…