Pakistan's leather sector turned in a  poor performance during first quarter of current financial year July-September '03, falling 9.32% to $172.048 million compared with the year before.

Of the total, finished leather exports were down 20% to $47.237 million and leather goods down by 5.5% to $107.7 million.  A 2% rise was seen in footwear exports, to $17.2 million.  There was no better news in the September 2003 figures as finished leather exports plummeted 45.5% to $11.1 million and leather goods -20% to $35.5 million.  Footwear exports were down 36% to $5 million.

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