The European foot and mouth disease crisis has lead to a boom in business for Brazil’s hides and skins trade, which exported 23% more hides in January and February than it did in the same period the year before.

Prices have also gone up by 20%, though this is not entirely due to the South American country’s new-found favour in the international marketplace. At around the same time the first FMD outbreaks were making the headlines in the UK, Brazil was experiencing problems of its own, mainly because of a NAFTA (North American Free Trade Area) – inspired BSE scare.

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