Volumes stay steady but Brazil leather exports see slide in value
10/12/2019
Between January and October this year, Brazil’s tanners and traders shipped 118.5 million square-metres of leather. This is 0.7% lower than the figure for the same period last year. Of this volume, 47.9% of the material shipped as wet blue, 44.9% as finished leather and 7.2% as crust.
Export earnings that this leather brought into Brazil amounted to $956.4 million, down by 21.5% on the corresponding figure for the first ten months of 2018. Finished leather contributed 60.1% of the total value, compared to 26.1% for wet blue, 8.6% for crust and 5% for wet blue split.
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