Exclusive | Lithuania reports access to Chinese market four days after being excluded amid diplomatic row
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Vidmantas Janulevicius, president of the Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists, told the South China Morning Post that members had been able to select “Lithuania” as an option when entering the country of origin for the goods they exported.
“From this morning Lithuania are in the system again,” Janulevicius said.
Orders that could not previously be fulfilled were now being completed, he said.
However, a second business source said it was still having problems with shipments. A pre-booked shipment of hi-tech goods to China was stalled on Tuesday after the logistics operator said it could not load goods onto the truck because of the political situation.
Last Friday, Lithuania appeared to have been removed from the system, meaning exports could not be fulfilled, and resulting in a pile-up of China-bound goods in warehouses, trains and ships in the tiny Baltic nation.