Mexico’s footwear production falls
08/07/2021
President of Mexico’s CICEG, Alfredo Padilla Villalpando, told his colleagues that footwear manufacturers there had produced 132 million pairs of shoes and boots in 2020, a decline of 34% compared to the figures for 2019.
He said that total footwear consumption in the Mexican market had fallen by 34% too, from around 330 million pairs in 2019 to 220 million pairs last year.
Exports of Mexican-produced footwear declined by almost 15% in 2020 to reach 18.7 million pairs. Imports fell by 28.6% year on year to reach 72.8 million.
Per capita consumption, which had been 2.7 pairs in 2019, fell by 37% to 1.7 pairs.
Mr Padilla said Mexico is the world’s ninth-biggest footwear producer and the fifteenth biggest consumer of shoes.
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