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Vietnam mulls leather testing

09/07/2014

Reports from Vietnam suggest Lefaso, the country’s leather and footwear association, is looking to introduce quality testing for imported leather.

Its secretary, Phan Thi Thanh Xuan, said about 150,000 tonnes of leather is imported into the country annually by the footwear industry but there are only a small number of leather testing centres. "As a result, footwear firms have to test their materials and products themselves to meet importers' requirements.”

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