From the Newsroom*
São Paulo – Revenues with Brazilian shoes exports increased by 3% in the first quarter of the year in relation to the same period in 2005. The shoes factories in Brazil had turnover of US$ 502 million with the foreign market during the first three months of this year against US$ 489.4 million between January and March last year.
The performance, according to the Brazilian Association of Shoe Manufacturers (Abicalçados), is the result of an increase in the average price of the pair, which was sold at US$ 8.74, value 7% greater than last year. The volume of pairs of shoes exported in the first quarter dropped 4%. There were 57.4 million pairs shipped abroad.
*Translated by Silvia Lindsey
