News

Brazil to import more skins from Middle East and African countries

14/09/2007

The Brazilian leather sector is set to increase the number of sheepskins and goatskins it uses.The import duty on both was recently lowered to zero from the Mercosur Common External Tariff list. This will enable specialist tanneries in northern and northeastern Brazil to import the necessary volume of the skins to bring their operations up to full ...

To continue reading this story, please sign in or register.