{"id":695963,"date":"2026-04-21T15:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=695963"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:46:13","slug":"no-protection-from-gulf-shock-worlds-biggest-condom-maker-warns-of-price-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=695963","title":{"rendered":"No Protection From Gulf Shock: World’s Biggest Condom Maker Warns Of Price Hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first-order effect of the U.S.-Iran conflict and the resulting shutdown of the Hormuz chokepoint was the disruption of global energy flows, from LNG to crude to refined products. The second-order effect was a spike in petrochemical prices and a widening shortage of key industrial inputs. Now the third-order effects are beginning to hit everyday goods, with Malaysia-based Karex, the world’s largest condom maker, warning that prices are about to explode.<\/h4>\n

Karex CEO Goh Miah Kiat spoke with Reuters in an exclusive interview about his plan to hike condom prices by 20% to 30%, and possibly more, as the war in Iran continues to disrupt supply chains and drive up critical input and shipping costs.<\/p>\n

“The situation is definitely very fragile, prices are expensive… We have no choice but to transfer the costs right now to the customers,”<\/strong><\/em> Goh said.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/no-protection-energy-shock-worlds-biggest-condom-maker-warns-price-hikes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first-order effect of the U.S.-Iran conflict and the resulting shutdown of the Hormuz chokepoint was the disruption of global energy flows, from LNG to crude to refined products. The second-order effect was a spike in petrochemical prices and a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=695963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695965,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695963\/revisions\/695965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=695963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=695963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=695963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}