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Algerian tanners complain of raw material shortage

21/11/2011
Hide smuggling across its eastern and western borders is costing Algeria dear, some of the country’s tanners have complained. The lack of raw material is the biggest problem tanners there are facing at the moment, some have said.

“Our number-one problem is the lack of hides,” Ramdane Nechak, commercial director of the Tameg tannery, recently told local media. “There are several reasons for this, but it’s notably because of raw material leaving the country.

Current legislation prohibits the export of raw hides from Algeria. A state-run company that collected hides and skins from different regions of Algeria closed in 2007. Government statistics show a 10% fall in the output of the country’s tanneries in the first half of 2011 compared to the same period in 2010.

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