The Zambian government is to review its leather policy to promote development in the local footwear industry, Commerce, Trade and Industry Deputy Minister Norman Chibamba has disclosed.

Speaking to the national press last week, the minister said the review was aimed at resuscitating the footwear production sector, which had suffered badly in the face of a wave of cheap imports. He had received numerous complaints from within the footwear-producing sector and stated that the review was as much as about protecting the industry as developing it.

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