Proposed exotic leather ban could cost 14,000 jobs in Mexico
15/09/2015
The Ecological Green Party of Mexico (PVEM) has proposed changes to the law surrounding the use of exotic leather. It wants exports from Mexico of finished products using exotic leather to be allowed only with the express permission of the country’s environment agency and for imports into Mexico of exotic leather and finished products made from exotic leather to be banned altogether, even for products and material that have certification from the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
Representatives of the leather sector in Mexico, predominantly in the main leather-producing state of Guanajuato, have calculated that between 14,000 and 15,000 jobs in the sector are dependent on exotic leather, much of it imported.
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