date:Mar 20, 2014
US hide, skin and leather exports set new records in 2013, according to statistics from the US Department of Agriculture.
Exports for wet salted cattle hides, which are hides that have been preserved using brine solutions, advanced 12 percent in value to $1.85 billion. Export prices for wet blue cattle hides, which are hides that have undergone the first stages of leather tanning, expanded 27 percent to nearly $800 million in value.
The value of pig and sow skin exports climbed 15 percent to $