{"id":274363,"date":"2020-06-07T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T10:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=274363"},"modified":"2020-06-05T19:01:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T22:01:35","slug":"brazilian-footwear-sales-to-eight-arab-countries-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazilian-footwear-sales-to-eight-arab-countries-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian footwear sales to eight Arab countries up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Footwear exports from Brazil to eight Arab countries went up year-on-year through April. Sales volume to Kuwait, the third biggest Arab importer, was up 25.6% to 355,000 pairs of shoes, with export value going up 13.4% to USD 2.31 million. The numbers are from the Brazilian Footwear Industry Association (<a href=\"http:\/\/abicalcados.com.br\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Abical\u00e7ados<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Export revenue was up 135.7% for Libya, 38% for Morocco, 69% for Bahrain, 26.4% for Oman, 346.9% for Sudan, 245.7% for Jordan and 147.2% for Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p>Total exports to Arab countries, on the other hand, slid 11.8% to USD 17.42 million year-over-year. Shipped volume was down 11.3% to 2.9 million pairs of shoes.<\/p>\n<p>Sales to the biggest Arab importers slowed \u2013 by 67% to the UAE, with revenue going down 59.2%. The country went from first to second leading importer, trailing Saudi Arabia, whose imports were down 24.7% in volume and 0.7% in value.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brazilian Footwear<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Footwear manufacturers affiliated with the Brazilian Footwear export promotion program, from Abical\u00e7ados and the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil), saw numbers go up in sales to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, KuwaitMorocco, Bahrain, Sudan, Tunisia, Libya and Oman.<\/p>\n<p>But Brazilian Footwear-affiliated companies\u2019 sales to the UAE also cooled off, and the country is no longer the top buyer \u2013 which it was by far in 2019. Export value was down 55.5% to USD 2.46 million.<\/p>\n<p>Abical\u00e7ados Commercial Promotion coordinator Let\u00edcia Sperb Masselli explained that the program\u2019s strategy is being redesigned for a few months now. \u201cUp until shortly before the pandemic, we considered the UAE our [main] market, and we had plans to bring UAE executives to Brazil. Now we\u2019re looking into other possibilities and partnerships with fashion industry associations, and possibly doing direct retail work,\u201d said Masselli.<\/p>\n<p>But she pointed out that the UAE still plays a key role in the shipping of product from Brazil to the Middle East, as a reexport hub into Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-274354\">Miguel Schincariol\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year-on-year through April saw a hike in exports to Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Bahrain, Oman, Sudan, Jordan and Tunisia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2324,"featured_media":274354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[9760,11910,3971,27133,9600,32775,6949,2030,9595,1854,9579],"class_list":{"0":"post-274363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-abicalcados-en","9":"tag-arabia-saudita-en","10":"tag-bahrain","11":"tag-bahrein-en-2","12":"tag-kuwait-en-2","13":"tag-libia-en","14":"tag-libya","15":"tag-oman","16":"tag-saudi-arabia-en","17":"tag-sudan","18":"tag-uae-en"},"wps_subtitle":"Year-on-year through April saw a hike in exports to Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Bahrain, Oman, Sudan, Jordan and Tunisia. 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