In a follow-up statement, CLIA said that Chinese companies exported 840 million pairs of shoes with leather uppers last year. This figure represents an 8.3% increase in volume.

While this means that leather shoes had only an 8.4% share of the overall footwear export market, leather shoes’ share of the total value of footwear exports from China last year is much higher, confirming how much added value leather can bring to footwear manufacturers.

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