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Leather shoes punch above their weight in Chinese exports

01/03/2013
Following its report that Chinese footwear manufacturers exported 10 billion pairs of shoes in 2012, the China Leather Industry Association (CLIA) has now disclosed the number of pairs of leather shoes included in this total.

In a follow-up statement, CLIA said that Chinese companies exported 840 million pairs of shoes with leather uppers last year. This figure represents an 8.3% increase in volume.

While this means that leather shoes had only an 8.4% share of the overall footwear export market, leather shoes’ share of the total value of footwear exports from China last year is much higher, confirming how much added value leather can bring to footwear manufacturers.
Overall, shoe exports brought in revenues of $44.4 billion. Shoes with leather uppers contributed $10.9 billion to this total (a figure that represents a decline of 0.2% compared to the value of leather shoe exports in 2011). So although leather has an 8.4% share of the total volume, in terms of value, its share is 24.5%. The average price per pair of exported shoes of all types was $4.44. The average price per pair of leather shoes was nearly $13.


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