What happened this week: Europe is now entering into full holiday mode. Although a handful of tanners in the north have already returned, the vast majority are now on holiday and, for the next two weeks at least, it is unlikely we will see tanners in operation or at their desks. Most have left with pretty strange feelings as the price explosion seen in the past two months not only took many by surprise, but pretty much went against anything they expected when they looked in their order books at the prices at which they have to deliver contracts, and at the season we are in.

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