The Colombian government has decided to renew its export restriction programme covering hides and skins.

Introduced in December, the original programme was imposed as a ‘fast track’ method of improving supplies to the country’s leather trade, which suffered severe hide shortages throughout 2000, and also keeping prices within a specified 5% price band. As well as banning the export of green hides, the programme restricted wet blue exports to 5000 tons during its four-month duration.

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