Export figures down for Pakistan
22/06/2012
In 2011, leather sector manufacturers in Pakistan earned $106.5 million in exports, which means the year-on-year decline was 21.8%.
Total leather-sector exports for the first 11 months of the current financial year, covering the period July 2011 to May 2012, are down by 3.7% to $963.6 million compared to just over $1 billion in the corresponding period a year earlier.
Footwear exports are down in volume and value over the same 11-month period, with 10.8 million pairs in the current financial year compared to 11.2 million a year earlier, a fall of 3.6%, on which footwear manufacturers brought in export revenues of $72.8 million this year compared to $98.2 million a year earlier, a fall of 25.9%.
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