Big increases again for Brazilian hide exports in July
13/08/2013
These figures represent increases of 23.1% in value and of 21.9% in volume compared to the same month in 2012.
Finished hides accounted for 56.9% of the total by value and for 45.2% by volume. Exports of crust represented 6.5% of the total value and 6.8% of the volume. Wet blue accounted for 30% of the value but was the greatest contributor to volume with 47.4%. The statistics attribute 6.3% of the total value to split but do not give a figure for split volumes. Fresh salted hides made up the difference with 0.3% of value and 0.6% of volume.