Official figures show that in the first two months of 2022, US tanners, packers and traders exported almost 5.6 million hides. Of these, just under 5 million were wet-salted and 600,000 were wet blue.

In volume terms, the combined total is 27% higher than the figure for the same months in 2021. Wet-salted’s volume growth is 30% and wet blue’s is 10%.

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