Australia's working from home boom saw the importation of laptops and office equipment from China jump by up to 40 per cent during the COVID-19 shutdown in April.
Preliminary data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed that while imports dropped $1.33 billion or 5 per cent to $23 billion in April, they were held up by a massive spend in office equipment including computers, printers, scanners, accounting machines and cash registers.
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