Negative numbers, but leather is still an $80 billion industry in China
04/03/2026
Final figures for 2025 show that China’s leather industry brought in export revenues of $82.7 billion, which the China Leather Industry Association said was a fall of 10.9% compared to the previous year.
It put the sales revenues achieved by the country’s main leather manufacturing companies at a collective total of around $7.5 billion, down by 9.8% year on year.
Together, Chinese manufacturers imported lower volumes of raw, semi-finished and finished hides, falls of 4.7%, 6.1% and 15.6% respectively.
The falls in the value of this material were even steeper: 15.8%, 19.1% and 15.7% respectively.
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