Enormous growth in Brazilian crust exports continues
15/08/2016
From January to July this year, Brazil exported raw hides, wet blue, crust and finished leather with a total area of almost 115 million square-metres. This represents an increase of 9% compared to the same months last year.
Revenues from these exports over the seven-month period in 2016 were just over $1.2 billion, which is 15.6% down compared to the same months in 2015.
In volume terms, exports of wet blue have increased year on year by 1.5%; wet blue accounted for 30.3% of the total.
Finished leather exports were up by 11.3% year on year and accounted for 57.1% of the total.
The biggest growth, once again, is in exports of crust, which in the first seven months of 2016 accounted for 12.6% of the total and registered an enormous year-on-year increase of 126.2%.
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