Declining sales in China hurt raw hides and skins exports from the U.S.

20 Tháng 12 2022

Between January and October 2022, packers, traders and tanners in the US exported 25.8 million hides, with a total value of just under $1.1 billion. These figures represent an overall decline of almost 13% in volume and of 8.3% in value compared to the same months last year. [Declines for US hide exports as China sales fall by 25% -Leatherbiz]

 

 

The 2022 figures comprise 22.5 million wet-salted hides and a little under 3.3 million wet blue, bringing in values of $733.1 million and $347.4 million, respectively.

This means wet-salted shipments reduced by 13% in volume and by 9% in value, while the declines for wet blue were of 12% in volume and 7% in value.

Exports of wet-salted hides to the US’s two biggest markets, China and Mexico, were down in volume by 26% and 14% respectively. But while the value of exports to China also fell, by 16%, shipments to Mexico increased in value by 2%.

In contrast, shipments to the third-biggest market for wet-salted, South Korea, increased in volume by 3%, but declined in value by 19%.

The biggest buyers of US wet blue hides were, as before, tanners in Italy, but exports to that market declined by 4% in volume and in value. Vietnam overtook China to become the second-biggest buyer of US wet blue; it imported 6% fewer wet blue hides, but paid 3%. China’s purchase of this material fell by 

 


Paese: Cina| Stati Uniti d'America
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