During Stay-at-Home Mandates, US Laptop and Tablet Imports Rose
During COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, the 10.37 million laptop and tablet imports to the U.S. in May rose 10.8% sequentially and 21% from May 2019, show Census Bureau data we accessed Friday through the International Trade Commission. May shipments had $4.58…
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billion in customs value, up 6.5% from April and 25.7% from the same 2019 month. China sourced 93% of the imports. Stay-at-home mandates spurred global shipments of “traditional” PCs to an 11.2% year-over-year increase in Q2 to 72.3 million, reported IDC Thursday. Work-from-home and remote-learning mandates sparked demand growth that “surpassed previous expectations,” said IDC: COVID-19 is returning computers to “the center of consumers' tech portfolio."