Hide export volumes hold up, but values down for Brazil
New figures from Brazil’s national tanning industry representative body CICB show export revenues of hides, skins and leather of US$939.5 million for the first ten months of this year. This is a fall of 11.1% compared to the same months in 2024.
There were double-digit declines in the value of shipments to all four of Brazil’s biggest markets.
Tanners in China paid $293.3 million for the material it imported from the South American country, a fall of 17% year on year. For the US market, the figure was $125.7 million, down by 12.5%. Importers in Italy spent $104.7 million on raw material from Brazil between January and October 2025, a decline of 15% year on year.
In terms of area, CICB calculated total exports to have come down by a much smaller percentage. In total, 154.1 million square-metres of hides and skins went from Brazil to markets overseas, down by 3.7%.
In terms of weight, the figure went up. Total weight of hides and skins shipped over the ten months was close 515,000 tonnes, an increase of 5.5%.
