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Tanners in Turkey sway towards domestic raw material

03/02/2023

Measures are in place in Turkey to promote the use of domestic hides in the country’s tanneries.

The government has imposed a 16% import duty on bovine hides coming into the country as crust. In parallel, a $500-per-tonne export duty is in place to discourage shipment overseas of Turkish wet blue.

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