Declines continue in China, but leather-sector exports hit $75 billion
Leather-industry exports from China in the first 11 months of 2025 had a total value of $75 billion, according to figures from the China Leather Industry Association (CLIA). This represents a decrease of 10.5% compared to the same months in 2024.
CLIA put the revenues of the country’s major leather manufacturers at around $6.75 billion for the January-November period. This, too, represents a decline, of 11% year on year.
Over that timeframe, tanners in China imported around 1.3 million tonnes of raw hides and skins, with a total value of just over $1 billion. These figures represent falls of 4.6% in volume and 16.5% in value.
Tanners also imported 530,000 tonnes of wet blue or wet white, with a value of $770 million, a fall of 5.7% in volume and of 17.7% in value.
Imports of finished leather reached 33,000 tonnes in volume and $520 million in value, falls of 15.6% and 16.2% respectively.
