Export ban is hindering Zambia’s leather industry
21/08/2018
The government imposed the ban in 2003 in an effort to protect the country’s leather industry. It has identified this sector as one with potential to help stimulate national economic growth.
“The leather industry loses over K15,000 every day in destroyed animal skins and cattle hides because it cannot be exported. Billions of Kwacha have been lost since the ban was put in place,” SLAZ chairperson Martin Mukuka was quoted as saying by local press.
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