Sofa factories, which had been difficult to obtain due to explosive orders for the first time in years in the second half of 2020, will encounter unstable signals as the first half of the year after the 2021 Spring Festival. Shipping rates, which began to rise in 2020, continued to rise in 2021, asking Chinese sofa factories to delay shipments of goods already ordered due to high shipping rates for overseas buyers who ordered large quantities in the second half of 2020. Shipping costs rose to $18,000 in 2021 from less than $4,000 before the 40-foot container-based Corona on the China-US route. However, official data such as the news show that the shipping cost of the China-U.S. route has risen to $8,000 per container, but the shipping cost of sofa factories, which are relatively small and medium-sized companies, has doubled to $18,000 per container. Shipping rates of large Chinese companies that have already contracted container volumes with blocks, like plane tickets from travel ...