CLIA president says chrome VI controls are hurting Chinese exporters

18/04/2012
China’s leather bag and luggage sector recorded successive declines in export revenues in January and February. The fall was 7% in January and 12% in February.

The president of the China Leather Industry Association (CLIA), Su Chaoying, said increased production costs and difficulties in finding finance, especially among smaller manufacturers, were hurting the sector and suggested that profit margins were down.

He went on to say that strict controls of chromium VI in leathergoods  in European markets were hurting Chinese exporters.