Not too many hiccups - just yet - to our trade exports due to covid-19

For the week ended March 31, total exports to all countries were up 13 point 2 per cent on the equivalent week last year, to one point four eight billion dollars.

Export New Zealand executive director Catherine Beard says there are frustrations in the industry over supply chains and the constraints of air freight.

She says anything that's going via ships - which is the majority of our goods exports - still seems to be going pretty well.