This week: Selling activities remained extremely quiet this week, in line with the usual seasonal pattern. In Europe, the summer holidays, which have either already started in some regions or are due to begin shortly, are now having a clearly noticeable impact. The leather industry is restricting its purchases almost exclusively to immediate order-related requirements. Where necessary, companies prefer to operate below full capacity rather than build additional inventories, for which there is currently insufficient certainty regarding future sales. 

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