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Brazil’s leather export woes continue

14/08/2009

New figures from the the Centre of Brazilian Tanning Industries (CICB) show that exports of hides and leather from Brazil in the first seven months of 2009 had a value of $588.6 million, a fall of 52% compared to the same period in 2008.CICB cited familiar reasons for the drop: the global economic downturn, high taxes, excessive bureaucracy, poor...

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