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US exports almost 20% fewer hides in first ten months of 2015

05/01/2016

In the first ten months of 2015, tanners and traders in the US exported just under 22.5 million hides, which brought in export revenues of just over $1.9 billion. Of these hides, wet blue accounted for 28.7% of the volume and 34.5% of the value, with fresh and wet salted hides making up the rest. Overall, the figures represent a fall in volume...

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