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Italian leather industry warns Brussels over raw material

05/07/2013
Italy’s tanning industry association UNIC has issued a joint statement with a number of trade unions representing tannery workers in different parts of Italy in which it warns the European Commission that, if current trends continue, all of the European Union’s raw hides will be exported to tanners outside the 28-state political and economic union by 2020.

The statement said formal letters had recently gone from the leather industry in Italy to the members of the European parliament who represent tanning areas in the country, as well as to the European commissioner for trade, Karel De Gucht. It added: “In these letters we denounce our state of penury and the increase in prices [of hides] owing to protectionism around the globe regarding raw material, and to manipulation of the European hide market by competitors in China and elsewhere.”

UNIC and its fellow complainants went on to say that Italian tanners make up 65% of the European tanning sector and 17% of the global industry.




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