President says CICB still wants Brazilian tanners to make finished leather
01/04/2014
In the first nine months of last year, 51.7% of Brazilian leather exports left the country 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 only 35% of the total for the first nine months while the proportion attributable to finished leather was almost 42.3%.
However, speaking at APLF 2014 Mr Bello said: “Wet blue is a commodity, although in recent times, there has been high demand for Brazilian wet blue and tanners have been able to make a good profit on it. Our project is to make finished leather and we expect Brazil’s tanneries to export more and more finished leather.”
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