From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernuzi, and this is the Daily.

The great supply chain disruption caused by the pandemic is mostly over, but it's led

to a larger and more permanent change in the global economy.

Today, my colleague Peter Goodman reports from the forefront of that change, an industrial

park in Mexico, where companies from China are setting up shop.

It's Tuesday, February 21st.

Peter, we all remember that during the pandemic, we couldn't get our stuff.

Mattresses, couches were all stuck out at sea taking forever to get to us.

As you explained to us on the show in October 2021, that was because the supply chain was

totally disrupted, and specifically that the factories in China were totally disrupted,

which really scrambled the entire shipping system across the Pacific that feeds everything

that Americans want to buy.

But now you've reported that there's been a big shift in all of this.

So what was it?

So the last time we talked, we were talking about giant container vessels that were stuck

floating off of large American ports for weeks and sometimes even months waiting their

turn to pull up to the dock.

That's largely gone.

At least it is on the big West Coast ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach.

There are trucks moving and picking up containers.

A lot of the shortages are gone.

Some prices which had spiked dramatically have plummeted and have returned largely to

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