What happened this week: There is a full focus on specific hides from specific markets and it seems that a good number of tanners left for their summer vacation without sufficient cover but in full confidence that, after their return, sellers and the hides would be waiting for them as they have been since the Coronavirus pandemic started. This might have been true, but some of the big sellers have changed their strategies from desperation to ambition. This applies in particular to the European heavy male market and its major destination, the automotive tanners.

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