The walls are completely draped with singing cacti and glittering masks inside the international marketplace Yimu in eastern China.

According to the World Bank, the market is the world's largest small goods market with 80,000 sellers.

But inside the giant market, Christmas is already over.

Everyone struggles with the same problem - transport times are too long and shipping costs too high.

The risk is imminent that some store shelves in Europe that would normally have been filled with "Made in China" will be significantly sparser ahead of Christmas.

Watch our delegates visit the Yiwu market and talk to Swedish buyer PG Andersson, in the player above.