Chile cheers up Abicalçados
18/08/2016
                    Attempts now to increase prices to recover some of the value are making Brazilian shoes less popular among buyers in other countries, he said.
In the first seven months of 2016, Brazilian footwear companies have exported 66.5 million pairs, earning revenues from these shipments of $530.1 million. These figures represent a 1.5% increase in volume of shoe shipments overseas but a 2.6% decline in value.
One interesting bright spot is that Brazil exported 535,000 pairs to Chile in July, more than in the whole of the rest of the year so far and 223.7% up on the same month in 2015.