Automotive leather demand helps drive up Brazilian state’s exports

09/07/2001

According to local news sources, investment by the Italian tanner Bermas led to leather exports from the Brazilian state of Ceara jumping by a phenomenal 780% between 1998 and 1999.

Together with the state’s burgeoning footwear trade, the company’s activities helped make leather one of the state’s key export commodities, with exports to the US automotive sector accounting for a high proportion of the total.