From the Newsroom*
São Paulo – Brazilian leather exports grew 4% in January over the same month last year. According to figures supplied by the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, complied by the Association of Tannery Industries of Rio Grande do Sul (AICSul), sector foreign sales totalled US$ 183 million last month.
The main clients in the period were China, Italy and the United States. In January 2007, Brazil exported 1.6 million pieces of wet blue leather. In the first month of this year, the total dropped to 939,000 pieces. With regard to sales revenues, the reduction in the wet blue area was 27%, to US$ 47.9 million.
*Translated by Mark Ament
