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Australian sheepkin market “crashes”

22/05/2012

Reports from Australia say buyers from China and from eastern Europe have withdrawn from skins market in recent weeks, leading to a fall of up to 60% in the price of lamb and sheepskins, sometimes overnight. Industry commentators have described it as the worst decline in the skins market since 1999 when the market crashed. A higher number of...

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