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Brazilians sell $500,000 worth of components at Meet in Africa

29/12/2006

Brazilian leather and footwear component suppliers secured deals worth US$500,000 at the recent Meet in Africa fair held recently in Cairo.

"We signed sales agreements for twelve containers of components. They were mainly for leather, leatherboard, PU and rubber soles as well as various kinds of components for safety footwear while, during the whole of 2005, Egypt purchased just twenty containers of components for men's and ladies' shoes worth US$800,000," said Daniel Schnorr, consultant for the Brazilian Association of Manufacturers of Components for Leather, Footwear and Leathergoods (Assintecal) who attended  the event.

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