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UNIC and SSIP aid counterfeit belt seizure

Published: December 7, 2022

Italian tanners’ association UNIC and the Italian Leather Research Institute (SSIP) have reportedly aided in the seizure of counterfeit leather belts from Chinese merchants.

Small rawhide traders in trouble

Published: August 9, 2021

Small-scale rawhide traders in Bangladesh are currently unable to sell salt-cured hides at expected prices due to influential traders seeking to slow the pace of purchases, The Daily Star reports.

Hide waste continues due to low cashflow

Published: July 7, 2021

The rawhide trade for 2021 still looks unfavourable in a number of countries, including Bangladesh, which has been negatively impacted by low cash flow and weakened markets as a result of Covid-19. Consequently, over the past two years, people at grassroots level have either thrown away or buried thousands of hides because they could not get proper prices from seasonal traders.

Bangladesh tanners agree to clear dues to hide traders

Published: August 23, 2019

An agreement was reached on August 23 following an earlier announcement by the Bangladesh Hide and Skin Merchants Association that they would not sell hide to tanners until their dues were paid.

Tension between hide merchants and tanners in Bangladesh

Published: August 28, 2018

Hide merchants in Bangladesh claim tanners lowered the prices of raw hides collected from sacrificial cattle during the Islamic festival Eid al-Adha by neglecting to pay the overdue arrears from the previous year.

Ban on hides may lead to smuggling

Published: April 12, 2016

Industry insiders fear that hides may be smuggled to India as traders exhaust their stock capacity following the Government’s ban on hides entering Hazaribagh.

Government scraps export tax on raw hides

Published: February 9, 2015

The Zimbabwe government has scrapped tax on raw hides exports with effect from January this year in a move that is expected to boost viability of abattoirs and the leather industry.