Big growth for Bangladesh leather industry
12/05/2014
Bangladeshi tanners have been criticised by campaign groups for their environmental performance and are still embroiled in a decade-long dispute with the government over a mass-move from the Hazaribagh cluster near capital city Dhaka to a new, purpose-built site at Savar.
In spite of this, the country’s official export promotion bureau has confirmed export earnings for the sector of more than $960 million for the nine-month period, compared to $670 million in the same period a year earlier.
The value of exports of leather increased by 40% to $381.1 million, while leather footwear exports increased in value by 31.7% to reach $410.2 million, and leathergoods achieved an increase of 62.8%, reaching almost $170 million.
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