China still has an 80% share of shoe exports to US
21/08/2015
According to analysis carried out for the China Leather Industry Association by Peter Mangione of Washington DC-based consultancy Global Footwear Partnerships, China’s shoe shipments to the US went up by 6.9% in volume and by 5.5% in value compared to the same quarter in 2014, reaching 570.1 million pairs and $4.4 billion.
Increases for Vietnam were sharper, at 19.6% in volume and 22.9% in value, reaching a volume for the quarter of 78.2 million pairs and a value of $982.2 million. Mr Mangione said that producers of sports and outdoor shoes are continuing to move production from China to Vietnam.
He said there was also strong growth, albeit from small volumes the year before, in exports to the US from Cambodia, India, Bangladesh, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic, with leather shoes predominating in shipments from all these countries (with the exception of Cambodia). These five countries recorded volume growth figures of 69.2%, 27.1%, 34.9%, 220.6%, and 18.2% respectively. They shipped volumes of 6.6 million, 6.1 million, 0.8 million, 0.5 million and 2.5 million pairs respectively.
Shipments fell from Italy, Mexico, Brazil, Ethiopia, and Thailand, “all of which seem to have lost leather shoe sales to the previous group”, Mr Mangione said. These countries recorded declines of, respectively, 2.8%, 2.6%, 8.1%, 33.5% and 14.1%, with volumes of 4.7 million, 3.8 million, 3.7 million, 0.4 million and 1.7 million pairs.
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