The Bangladeshi government has broken with more than 30 years of policy and begun allowing ten tanners in the country to export wet blue hides.

Wet blue exports have been banned by Bangladesh since 1990 in support of the domestic leather manufacturing sector, but the government announced last year that it would consider allowing some tanners to ship wet blue in the weeks following the Eid al-Adha festival to alleviate the problem of large stocks of hides building up and of many hides going to waste.

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