{"id":404469,"date":"2026-03-10T14:04:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=404469"},"modified":"2026-03-10T14:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:06:09","slug":"brazil-imports-more-footwear-from-tunisia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazil-imports-more-footwear-from-tunisia\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil imports more footwear from Tunisia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2014 Tunisia increased its footwear sales to Brazil in the first two months of this year, according to data released by the Brazilian Footwear Industries Association (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abicalcados.com.br\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abical\u00e7ados<\/a>). In January and February combined, Brazil imported 3,416 pairs from Tunisia, up 216.3% from the same period last year, when it bought 1,080 pairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The increase was also recorded in value and in the average price per pair: in total, Brazil imported USD 64,400 in Tunisian footwear, up 236.1%. The average price per pair this year was USD 18.85, 6.3% higher than last year\u2019s USD 17.74. These are average prices lower, for example, than those in purchases from the United States (USD 37.94) and Italy (USD 245.56), but higher than those from Indonesia (USD 17.58) and China (USD 2.54), in a sector where China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Hong Kong, and Paraguay are among the five largest exporters to Brazil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In February alone, Morocco ranked as the 19<sup>th<\/sup> supplier and Tunisia the 20<sup>th<\/sup>. Morocco\u2019s sales, however, fell 79.7% to 402 pairs in the period. Tunisian shipments totaled 116 pairs, a 74.1% drop compared to February last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Drop in footwear exports<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement released on Monday (9), Abical\u00e7ados said that imports continue the upward trend of recent years. In January and February combined, Brazil imported 9.7 million pairs of footwear, an increase of 23% compared to the first two months of 2025. Value-wise, imports totaled USD 109.27 million, up 12.1% in the same comparison. China accounted for 32.57% of the pairs the country bought abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exports, in turn, are down 18.9% in the year to 17 million pairs, totaling USD 135.34 million, a value 22.2% lower than that recorded in the first two months of last year by the sector\u2019s exports. Even with exports falling and imports rising, the sector still posts a surplus for the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement from Abical\u00e7ados, the institution\u2019s president, Haroldo Ferreira, said the drop in exports is the result of instability in the international market, especially in the U.S., and a slowdown in the Argentine market, the two main buyers of Brazilian footwear. \u201cThere has been a slowdown in consumption in the Argentine market since the second half of last year, combined with intensified international competition for Brazilian footwear in that market, especially from Asian countries,\u201d Ferreira said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Read more<\/em>:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazil-footwear-industry-reacts-despite-us-tariffs\/\">Brazil footwear industry reacts despite US tariffs<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-404429\">Supplied<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first two months of the year, 3,400 pairs were imported from the Arab country, more than double the same period last year, according to Abical\u00e7ados data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":404429,"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":[91],"tags":[9760,9534,9561,1867,9562,9558,48914],"class_list":{"0":"post-404469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-abicalcados-en","9":"tag-brazil-en","10":"tag-exports-en","11":"tag-footwear","12":"tag-imports-en","13":"tag-morocco-en","14":"tag-tunisia-2"},"wps_subtitle":"In the first two months of the year, 3,400 pairs were imported from the Arab country, more than double the same period last year, according to Abical\u00e7ados data.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}