Brazil: August figures augur well, but wet blue continues to dominate

10/09/2014

Figures for the first eight months of 2014 suggest that Brazil’s exports of finished leather continue to play a slightly smaller role in terms of volume as exports of wet blue dominate, just as they did in 2013. Between January and August 2014, Brazilian tanners shipped more than 23.5 million hides, with just over 10 million of them (42.9% in...