US and Italy export figures are a concern for Brazilian tanners
Brazil’s exports of leather and hides in the first nine months of 2025 had a value of $840.8 million.
In terms of volume, tanners and traders shipped 137.8 million square-metres of material, which corresponds to a weight of 457,000 tonnes.
Compared to the same period last year, this represents a fall in value of 11.8%. The number of square-metres shipped is down by 3.9%, but in terms of weight, there was an increase of 5% year on year.
On sharing the figures, national tanning industry body CICB noted that exports of leather from Brazil to China were up by 2.8% in terms of square metres in the January-September period this year, reaching 60.4 million square-metres. In value, there was a fall of 14.8% year on year in shipments to China, reaching $251.3 million.
With geopolitical and trade tensions still affecting business, CICB said exporters were particularly concerned about results for the US and Italy. In both of these other major markets, shipments were down in value and in volume.
For the US, the figures were value of $117 million and leather and hides with a combined area of just over 9.8 million square-metres, falls of 12.2% and 3.5% respectively.
Italy’s figures are a value of $93.4 million and an area of 17.7 million square-metres, declines of 17.4% and 8.6% respectively.
Our usual Friday report on cattle slaughter in the US is still unavailable owing to the government shutdown there.
