According to figures released by Chinese Customs officials, export volumes of key leather goods saw a slight increase in January 2005, compared with the same period in 2004.

Although exports of leather gloves decreased slightly to 69.5 million pairs ($62.3 million) and leather machinery exports fell to 2,000 pieces ($883,000), all other sectors reported an increase in exports. Leather shoe exports increased to 115.5 million pairs ($625.1 million), leather garments to 3.58 million pieces ($129.4 million), fur garments rose to 249 tons ($ 36.8 million) and semi-finished & finished leather reached 15,000 tons ($ 98.2 million).

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