According to the statistics of China Leather Industry Association (CLIA), in May 2005 China exported leather goods worth $7.621 billion, an increase of 17% on last year, and imported $2.144 billion, a 7% increase on May 2004.

The export of leather upper shoes reached up to 509.71 million pairs (+15.6%) to a value of $2.835 billion (+26.8%), traveling goods and cases to $2.75 billion (+15.8%), leather balls to $69.55 million (+0.2%), semi-finished leather and finished leather to $589.9 million (+11.1%), shoe-making accessories to $ 231.4 million (+9.9%) and leather machinery to $5.6 million (+33.5%). Of all the leather goods only the export value of leather gloves declined by 9.6% to $269.2 million, even though the quantity increased by 15.7% to 304.52 million pairs.

According to the China customs’ record, from March to April the import of leather upper shoes increased by 470,000 pairs to 1.87 million pairs and in May it jumped to 2.14 million pairs. At the same time, the import of shoe-making accessories and leather machinery fell slightly due to the fact that a lot of the factories in Taiwan-based factories moved to China mainland.

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