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Wet blue now leads the way in Brazil

13/01/2014
Following reports of record export results for the Brazilian leather industry in 2013, more detailed statistics show that wet blue’s share of the total is increasing, and a gap between the volume of wet blue exports and those of finished leather appears to be opening up.

In the early days of this year, industry association CICB reported that, according to preliminary figures, exports brought in more than $2.5 billion in 2013, a record amount.

So far, confirmed details are available for the first nine months of 2013 only. Based on these, in a statement on January 13, CICB said Brazil had exported 25.8 million hides over the nine-month period, an increase of 22.8% compared to the same period in 2012, and of 25.2% compared to the same three quarters in 2011.

In 2013, 51.7% of the nine-month total left Brazil as wet blue, compared to 39.6% as finished leather. A year earier, wet blue’s share of the exports was 44.6%, while finished leather’s was 45%. In the same period in 2011, wet blue accounted for 35% of the total for the first nine months, while the proportion attributable to finished leather was almost 42.3%.




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