Ongoing US-China trade war provides enormous opportunities for leather exports: CLE

15 Nov 2019 Evaluate

Amid ongoing US-China trade war, Council for Leather Exports (CLE) Chairman -- P R Aqeel Ahmed has said that the trade war provides huge opportunities to leather exporters to increase their shipments to America. The sector's exports grew about seven per cent to the US in the past four months. He noted that the commerce minister has already announced a Rs 2,600-crore package for the leather sector to boost exports.

He further said leather exports have recorded dip in growth in value terms but in volume terms, it is increasing. He said ‘this is the sector which provides the highest employment to women and we are taking several steps to promote exports.’ This labour-intensive sector has huge potential to earn foreign exchange for the country and create jobs for the youth.

He mentioned that despite the global economic slowdown, production and employment in the leather sector have increased. Also, this is the only industry where in the exports of value-added products ($5.69 billion) are almost five times more than the import of inputs/components/accessories and capital goods which is to the tune of $1 billion. He added that the industry is undertaking a multi-pronged approach including product and market diversification, attracting investments, increasing capacities and also developing skills of workers so as to increase its global market share in the coming years.

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