French leather sector registers positive balance of trade for 2018
13/03/2019
On releasing the figures for 2018, France’s national leather industry body, the Conseil National du Cuir (CNC), said that, faced with a decline in domestic sales, its tanners and finished product brands put high levels of energy into boosting their export sales.
Their efforts bore fruit; French leather industry exports had a value of €11.7 billion in 2018, an increase of 10% compared to the previous year’s figures.
Leather-sector imports had a total value of €10.7 billion, which represents a fall of 8% year on year.
CNC said the main reason for this shift was that imports tended to be dominated by lower-value footwear, bags and gloves, while exports were dominated by high-end luxury leathergoods of very high value.
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