”Other times, we just can't get shipments here, but that’s a national situation.” New Zealand’s paint market is a mix of imports and New Zealand-made products, and it also had a small specialist paint export industry. But commercial painters spoken to by Stuff had yet to feel any pain. Kevin Steel, a painter in Christchurch, said he’d had briefly difficulty getting one type of paint through a trade outlet but there were other brands. Chris McKeen/Stuff However, shortages were “bound to happen” given the current difficulties at the ports, he said. Another painter, Tony Richards in Wellington, said he’d heard of certain brands being in short supply.