The words are from Mr. Javier Plascencia, President of CICEG, during a reflection about the recently announced Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), a free trade agreement between the US, Mexico and 11 Pacific countries
From January to September, shoe sales from Brazil to the United Arab Emirates went up by 17.5%. In the same period, Brazilian footwear exports dropped by 12%
The inversion of the trend of the last few months is been seen as the beginning of a long-awaited recovery, however, exports in September were still 9.3% lower than what was registered in similar period in 2014
Lefaso, the Vietnam Leather, Footwear and Handbag Association reported that last year the country export 4.88 billion US dollars’ worth of footwear to the EU
The statement occurred as the Italian Footwear Association reflected on the last edition of the Obuv Mir Koži trade fair. Italian exports to the region are showing a downward trend
The US and 11 Pacific countries have reached an agreement regarding the region’s largest trade deal in its history, the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)
According to data released by ACICAM, the Colombian Association of Footwear, Leather and Leather Goods, during the first 5 months of the current fiscal year footwear exports had a two digits growth
According to FICE, the Federation of Spanish Footwear Industries, during the first six months of 2015 exports have reached 1480.6 million euros (83.8 million pairs)
In clear contrast to the 12.3% decline in total international footwear sales in the period January-August, Brazilian exports to the Arab country are growing and totaled 15.7 million US dollars in the period
According to statistics recently released by CLIA, Chinese footwear exports grew in value in the first 6 months of the year, despite a decline in volume. Chinese economy total exports slump of 8% in July triggering a nightmare on stock markets worldwide
According to numbers recently released by Abicalçados the global yearly amount of exports totaled 544 million US dollars until July, down by 10.6% from similar period in 2014
The two regions reached an understanding for a free trade agreement. This will open one of Asia’s fastest-growing economies and a consumer market of more than 90 million people to EU companies
The Brazil-based company closed the semester with growing revenue, despite the poor sales performance in the second quarter. Net profit for the period with two digits growth rate