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Raw Hides and Skins Marketing in Developing Countries. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Aug 2010, Pages: 88
The World's Leather Industry has been around a long while. This industry on average produces about 18 billion square feet of leather a year, and the total value of this is estimated at about $40 billion. If the by-product of the meat industry, raw hides and skins, was not used to produce this quantity of leather, then, for example, shoes and upholstery would be manufactured from alternative,non-renewable raw materials such as plastics and other petrochemical based products. Developing countries now produce over 60 percent of the world's leather,
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