Big names fall foul of Portugal’s leather law
Portugal’s national tanning industry body, APIC, has said trading standards officers have found six prominent companies to be in breach of the country’s leather law.
A law prohibiting the mention of leather as a means of promoting synthetic alternative materials came into force in Portugal in January 2022. The law provided a period of grace, giving companies until the end of that year to sell any stock bearing descriptions that were not in keeping with the law.