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China lockdowns push US hide export volumes down

12/07/2022

Packers, traders and tanners in the US exported a total of 13.3 million hides in the first five months of 2022, a fall of 2.3% compared to the same months last year.

In the January-May period in 2022, there were shipments of 11.6 million wet-salted hides, down by 3% year on year. For wet blue, the 2022 figure was 1.7 million, an increase of 4%.

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