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Italy: intense export focus for leather industry

22/03/2011

New analysis by Italy’s official statistics department, Istat, has revealed just how focused on export markets the country’s leather and leathergoods production industry is. Figures for the period spanning 2009–2010 show that Italian manufacturing firms across all sectors had 7,745 overseas subsidiaries, generated revenues of EUR 190 billion and...

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