The chairman of India’s Council for Leather Exports (CLE), Sanjay Leekha, has revealed that the country’s leather sector has achieved exports to the US with a value of $1 billion for the first time.

Mr Leekha shared the information, which relates to the financial year that has just ended (April 2021-March 2022), in comments he made at APLF 2022 in Dubai. He said the corresponding figure for the previous financial year was around $600 million.

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