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Trade war pokes holes in Japan's cardboard market

As China snaps up used paper, box makers fret over future supplies

Concerns about a cardboard shortage are growing in Japan, amid surging used paper exports to China.

TOKYO -- As anxiety grows over the fallout from the U.S.-China trade war, it has emerged that even the cardboard used to package the affected products risks falling victim to disrupted supply chains.

Japanese manufacturers face a shrinking supply of the used paper from which cardboard is fashioned, as China, the world's largest producer, has switched its source of supply from the U.S. to Japan.

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