We look at some commodities that are exported from Australia to the UK.
Beef (HS 0204): Mirror trade data for this commodity is shown in the figure below.
![](https://generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/tradescm/wp-content/uploads/sites/514/2024/05/image.png)
We can analyse the lead times and graph them as below:
![](https://generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/tradescm/wp-content/uploads/sites/514/2024/05/image-1.png)
We see a spike in lead time towards the end of 2021 which continues until the beginning of 2023.