UAE Leads The Leather Industry In The Gulf Region

In 2013, the output value of leather imports and exports in the Gulf region reached US $3 billion 900 million, including semi finished products and finished leather products, travel articles and accessories.

Hugo network learned from foreign media "thenational" recent reports: in the Gulf region, the United Arab Emirates imports and exports totaled 2 billion US dollars each year, and is the largest leather producer in the Gulf region.

Saudi Arabia is another big producer, and the total import and export of leather products in 2013 amounted to US $1 billion 100 million.

The UAE tanning industry has ten years of history. The Al Khaznah Tannery, headquartered in Abu Darby, is one of the most advanced tanning companies in the world.

The camel skin produced by the company has a very high technological level.

Although the camel skin is expensive, the cortex is thicker and more durable than the cowhide.

Leather is one of the most widely traded products in the world.

Every year, global leather and leather products trade exceeds $60 billion, including Syrians' favorite bright brown coats and many black sports shoes that financiers enjoy.

Leather includes snake skin, goat skin, shark skin, salmon skin and chicken skin recently appeared in the market. Chicken skin is mainly used for making fashion accessories such as earrings.

Benjamin Redwood, manager of leather development in the Middle East of Dubai, said: "Saudi Arabia and Iran have a large number of tanning factories. They produce a lot of handbags and sandals every year. These products will be labeled with white labels when they arrive at the importing country.

In China, the new middle class is the biggest demand for fur clothing, accessories and furniture.

In the United Arab Emirates, Dubai has become the main distributing center for raw cowhide, which comes from Sultan (the second largest cattle growing country after the United States), Kenya and Ethiopia.

Egypt is also an important leather producing country in the region and has more than 200 leather factories.

However, although the leather industry has existed for thousands of years, it is still mainly consumed at home.

Africa has 15% of the world's cattle, 25% of the goats and sheep, but only 15% of the world's raw skins.

8%, raw goat and sheep skin accounted for 14%.

In some African countries, in recent years

Export volume has declined, accounting for less than 4% of the total export volume, but the export of leather goods is very high.

A few years ago, the rate of tannery in these countries was 9.2%, now only 6.8%.

Meanwhile, over the past ten years, the number of livestock has increased by 25%, more than the world average.

In this case, the United Arab Emirates is sitting on its feet, importing leather from Africa and then exporting to Africa, but African livestock leather is often lower than the EU standard, and the UAE enterprises usually do not use the United States.

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Insiders estimate that 2/3 of the raw skins imported from Africa go directly into the Chinese market.

The skins needed by the UAE are mainly imported from Europe and Germany, Italy.