{"id":57132,"date":"2017-05-09T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/footwear-exports-drop-but-revenue-increases\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T12:47:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T15:47:28","slug":"footwear-exports-drop-but-revenue-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/footwear-exports-drop-but-revenue-increases\/","title":{"rendered":"Footwear exports drop, but revenue increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; Footwear exports from Brazil reached USD 79.26 million in April, up 14.8% from April 2016. A total of 8.33 million pairs of shoes were shipped abroad, down 1.1% year-on-year. The numbers were made public this Tuesday (9) by the Brazilian Footwear Manufacturers Association (Abical&ccedil;ados).<\/p>\n<p>Year-to-date through April, exports reached USD 338.27 million, up 14.4% from a year ago. Foreign sales amounted to 39.67 million pairs, down 1.5%. <\/p>\n<p>An Abical&ccedil;ados press release quoted president Heitor Klein as saying that the drop in shipped volume was a result of the appreciation of Brazil&rsquo;s currency, the real. &ldquo;When these exports whose statistics are being released now were made, the US dollar was worth approximately BRL 3.15, which makes it very hard to compete internationally,&rdquo; he said. He said the best-case scenario would be a price ranging from BRL 3.50 to BRL 3.60. <\/p>\n<p>The only Arab country in the list of top 20 export destinations was the UAE, which ranked 15th. Sales to the UAE fetched USD 4.84 million, a 26.6% drop over the year-ago period. A total of 584,000 pairs of shoes were shipped, down 20.3% from a year ago. <\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign sales from Brazil reached USD 79 million in April and USD 338 million year-to-date. The number of pairs shipped abroad went down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-57132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"Foreign sales from Brazil reached USD 79 million in April and USD 338 million year-to-date. The number of pairs shipped abroad went down.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57132","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=57132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}