Double-digit growth for Tunisian leather and footwear in Q1
10/05/2013
In the first three months of this year, leather and footwear manufacturing companies brought into the North African country export revenues of $171.7 million. Almost 60% of this total came from exports of shoes.
Overwhelmingly, Italy, France and Germany were the main export markets with, respectively, shares of 41.9%, 29.3% and 14.3%.
In the course of the first quarter of 2013, Tunisia imported leather and footwear products with a value of around $94 million, 9% higher than in the same quarter in 2012, with imports of hides and skins accounting for 51.2% of this.
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