Reports from China indicate a strong performance by the country’s leather industry in the first quarter of 2010.
    According to the China Leather Industry Association, the total value of the output of the leather sector across the country in the first three months of the year was 22.6% higher than in the same period in 2009.
    The value of this output, which includes footwear, leather, leathergoods, garments, upholstery and so on, was $20 billion. For the tanning sector alone, the value of first-quarter output was around $3.4 billion, which CLIA said represented growth of 16.1% compared to last year.