Shipments of US wet blue to Italy slow down
09/05/2018
Between January and March 2018, Italian tanners imported just over 390,000 wet blue hides from the US, paying a total of $41.1 million for the material.
These figures represent a decline compared to the first three months of last year of more than 20% in volume and 11.4% in value.
Globally, US wet blue exports for the quarter fell by 23% year on year in volume to reach just under 1.2 million hides. In value terms, the decline was 16% to just under $120 million.
After Italy, the next-biggest market is China, which imported just under 360,000 US wet blue hides over the three months, with a value of $35.8 million. These figures also represent a fall compared to the same quarter last year, of 37% in volume and 31% in value.
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