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Leather exports down as Mexican companies add value on home soil

19/07/2012
Mexico’s main leather-producing state, Guanajuato, has announounced a 6.2% decline in exports of finished leather and hides and skins in the first four months of 2012 compared to the same period in 2011.

Between January and April this year the state’s tanneries (of which there are 500 in the city of León alone, although many are very small) earned $54.1 million in exports, compared to $57.7 million over the same four months last year.

The president of Cicur, a leather industry association in the state, Ricardo Gallardo, said he was not too worried about the decline, explaining that leather for automotive upholstery that used to be exported was now being shipped to car-seat factories in Mexico.

He also said that more leather was going into Guanajuato-produced footwear and that the state’s finished footwear manufacturers had recorded a 30% increase in the export earnings they have been able to achieve using, largely, leather from local tanneries.


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