Another record month for Brazilian hides
14/06/2013
In terms of value, Brazilian tanners and traders exported raw, semi-processed and finished hides worth $229.3 million during May, an increase of 16.8% compared to May 2012 and an increase of 5.0% compared to April 2013.
In the course of the month, the volume of hides exported reached 3.2 million, an increase of 16.9% compared to May 2012.
Cumulative figures for 2013 so far show that hide exports brought in almost $1 billion in the first five months. The exact figure was $984.8 million. This represents a year-on-year increase of 18.9%. In terms of volume, the cumulative total is almost 14.5 million, an increase of 25.3% compared to the first five months of 2012.
Of the hides exported in the first five months of this year, 54.3% were finished, 6.1% crust, 4.5% split, 34.5% wet blue and 0.6% salted.
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