Export volumes up by values down for Pakistan’s tanners

09/01/2020
Pakistan’s leather industry recorded growth of 3.6% in export revenues in the first five months of the current financial year (July-November 2019), with the total amount reaching $371.6 million.

Tanners exported a higher volume of finished leather, 7.6 million square-metres, an increase of more than 20%. However, the revenues this finished leather brought in fell by 18.8% to just under $88 million.

Leathergoods exports rose in value by 11.2% over the five-month period, reaching $227.4 million, while the value of leather footwear exports increased by 22.7% in value.