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Bangladeshi leather footwear exports continue to grow

Apr 15, 2025 Bangladesh

Leather footwear exports are underpinning the positive performance of the leather industry in the fiscal year 2024-2025, according to the Export Promotion Bureau of the Government of Bangladesh

The latest data released by the Asian country’s Export Promotion Bureau shows that total leather exports between July 2024 and March 2025 amounted to 852.01 million US dollars, an increase of 9.89% over the same period of the previous fiscal year. Leather footwear exports account for about 58% of the total export value.

More specifically, in the first eight months of its current fiscal year, Bangladeshi leather footwear exports grew by 25.24%, as compared to the same period in the fiscal year 2023-2024, reaching 496.17 million US dollars.

On the contrary, between July 2024 and March 2025, leather goods exports fell by 6.11% to 256.44 million US dollars and finished leather exports fell by 6.29% to 99.40 million US dollars, on a comparable basis to the same months of the last fiscal year.

Bangladesh’s other footwear exports are also on the rise. In the first eight months of its current fiscal year, exports in this segment totalled 414.68 million US dollars, an increase of 34.15% as compared to the period March 2023-July 2024.

Bangladesh Footwear Industry

According to the World Footwear 2024 Yearbook (more information available HERE), Bangladesh has emerged as one of the world’s top 10 footwear producers over the past decade, with exports growing rapidly. However, in 2023, exports dropped by 25%, mainly due to a drop in US imports.

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