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US hide exports down in volume and value in first eight months

14/10/2015

In the first eight months of 2015, tanners and traders in the US exported more than 18 million hides, which brought in export revenues of just over $1.6 billion. Of these hides, wet blue accounted for 29% of the total of the volume and 20.2% of the value, with fresh and wet salted hides making up the rest. The figures represent a fall in volume...

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