Exports of hides and skins made by SECEX (Foreign Trade Secretariat), for the month of October 2013, not only showed an overshoot compared to the values of the same month of the previous year and compared to September this year, but also a record value in a single month. The month of October shows a total value of US$ 236.908 million, an overshoot in the value of May this year, which held the previous record of US$ 229.301 million. The high compared to October 2012 was 28.3%, whose value was US$ 184.525 million, and an increase of 6.8% compared to September 2013, the value of which was US$ 221.823 million.
Regarding the quantity of hides, considering only the cattle hides, in October were exported 3.365 million pieces, also a monthly record, with an increase of 31.5 % compared to October 2012, whose total was 2.558 million. Importantly, the significant increase in the number of pieces occurred in finished leather, with a record 1.319 million hides.
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Exports of hides and skins made by SECEX (Foreign Trade Secretariat), for the month of October 2013, not only showed an overshoot compared to the values of the same month of the previous year and compared to September this year, but also a record value in a single month.