Brazil leather exports pass $1 billion in nine months
Brazil’s national tanning industry body CICB has released figures for the country’s leather exports for the first nine months of 2021.
Between January and September, Brazilian tanners exported leather with a value of just over $1 billion. This represents an increase of 53.8% compared to the same period in 2020 and of 15.8% compared to the first three quarters of 2019.
Volume was up too, compared to 2020, by 9.6%, reaching more than 133 million square-metres. But, compared to the corresponding period in 2019, this year’s volume was down by 4%.
Finished leather accounted for the largest share of exports, providing 56.7% of value and 52.8% of the total volume. The corresponding figures for wet blue were 26% and 37.2% respectively. Crust accounted for most of the rest.
