Brazilian tanning industry association CICB has published hides and leather export figures for the first two months of 2022, showing total export revenues for the two months of $211.5 million. This figure is 2% up on the total for the same two months in 2021.

In terms of volume, however, numbers were down. CICB said tanners and traders from Brazil exported 23.6 million square-metres of finished and semi-processed leather. This constitutes a decline of 22.7% year on year.

Finished leather accounted for 57% of the value of January and February exports, followed by wet blue with 26.2% and crust with 9.5%. 

With regard to volume, finished leather’s share was 50.2%, wet blue’s was 29.7% and crust’s was 8.6%.

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