date:Mar 20, 2014
57 million, despite facing market access restrictions in key leather producing countries.
China remains the largest customer for US hides and skin products. The value of wet salted hides exported to China jumped 23 percent to $1.1 billion, while wet blue exports climbed 7 percent to $282 million.
The US continues to be the worlds preferred supplier of raw and semi-processed materials for leather production. said Stephen Sothmann, president of the US Hide, Skin and Leather Association, a divis