Revenue up for China’s leather garments sector, in spite of export slide
Leather garment manufacturers in China are growing revenue even though the value of their shipments to export markets is down.
This indication that the domestic leather garment market is on the up comes from figures for the January-May 2025 period that the China Leather Industry Association (CLIA) has shared.
It did not give a value for the overall sales that leather garment manufacturers and brands were able to achieve in the five-month period, but confirmed that revenues were up by more than 12% year on year.
With regard to exports, the garments they shipped to customers outside China over the period had a value of just over $34 million, a fall of 20% year on year.
CLIA also shared details of imports of leather garments into China in the first five months of this. These products had a value of $40 million, a fall of 8.7% year on year.
