60% of hides in the global market are subject to protectionism, COTANCE says
19/06/2015
Speaking in Paris on June 19 at the second of four seminars in a programme called ‘A Future For European Leather’, Mr Gonzalez-Quijano said: “There is no level playing field. A lot of the countries that supply hides to the global market are caught up in some sort of protectionism. In fact, 60% of all the raw material available to the leather industry across the world is subject to some kind of protectionism and this is having an impact.”
He said tanners have no option but to source hides and skins to make leather and that protectionism is having an effect on prices that tanners in the EU have to pay, putting them at a disadvantage compared to competitors in other parts of the world. “We have a hard time making the authorities in the EU understand this,” he said, “but this is what is happening and it is unsustainable.”
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