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26 February 2019

What happened last week: A week of great expectations finished on Friday. The Lineapelle fair is still the main event twice a year when it comes to fashion and the best use for a by-product from the beef...

US Perspective – 26.02.19

Courtesy of The Maxfield Report www.themaxfieldreport.com Packers in the big packer trade entered last week with offer lists that were for the most part unchanged compared to the previous 2-3 weeks. This...

19 February 2019

German Perspective - 19.02.19

What happened this week: The Chinese industry and traders began slowly to return from their vacation last week; the first ones to turn up were agents. From Tuesday onwards the number of emails increased and...

US Perspective - 19.02.19

Courtesy of The Maxfield Report www.themaxfieldreport.com Reports from the big packer trade claim interest in the second half of last week did not exhibit any substantial improvement compared to the first...

The Leather Pipeline - 19.02.19

Macroeconomics In the past two years geopolitics has become so eventful that it is quite difficult to pick what is the most interesting in the period we cover. Until some years ago the world had a general...

12 February 2019

German Perspective - 12.02.19

What happened this week: It was the week of the Chinese New Year holiday and that made its mark. Activity was very slow and the main purpose of emails and phone calls were to offer good wishes for the Year of...

US Perspective 12.02.19

Courtesy of The Maxfield Report www.themaxfieldreport.com Interest drew to a virtual crawl last week from tanners in Asia. A number of sources reported that they were able to conclude some business with...

05 February 2019

German Perspective – 05.02.19

What happened last week: We could have copied all we said in our previous report to this one. Last week was similar to the final week before Christmas in the Western world. Everybody in China was busy wrapping ...

The Leather Pipeline - 05.02.19

Macroeconomics The world continues to run into increasingly unstable conditions. It is a slow but continuous process. We cannot say exactly when and where it all started but we have shifted away from a time...

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