Using data from the Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics (DGCI&S) the CLE estimates that sales abroad of leather and leather products for the period April 2014 - January 2015 reached 5 549.4 million US dollars, compared to 4 892.4 million US dollars in similar period of the previous year. This represents a positive growth of 13.4%.

Leather footwear exports totaled 1 933.8 million US dollars in the first ten months of the fiscal year, growing 16.3% from similar period in the previous year (1 662.94 million US dollars).

In the same period exports of finished leather increased by 7.7% and leather goods by 10.0%.

Worth being highlighted is the performance of exports of non-leather footwear, with a significant growth of 70.6%, reaching 221.0 million US dollars in the period April 2014 - January 2015.

According to the same source, the main destinations for the exports of leather and leather products during the period were Germany (12.6%), US (11.5%), UK (11.5%) and Italy (7.8%), all together representing 43.5% of the sales abroad of these products.

The World Footwear estimates that in 2013 India was the 9th largest exporter of footwear with a 1.2% share in total exports.