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 2015 – August 2015 reached 2 653.64 million US dollars, compared to 2 872.64 million US dollars in similar period of the previous year. This represents a decline of 7.6%.

Leather footwear exports totaled 962.75 million US dollars in the first five months of the fiscal year, declining by 4.7% from similar period in the previous year (1 010.22 million US dollars).

In the same period exports of finished leather declined by 19.7% and leather goods by 2.5%.

Worth being highlighted is the performance of exports of non-leather footwear, growing by 10.2%, reaching 155.47 million US dollars during the period April 2015 – August 2015.

According to the same source, the main destinations for the exports of leather and leather products during the period were Germany (11.1%), US (14.4%), UK (12.3%) and Italy (7.0%), all together representing roughly 45% of the sales abroad of these products.

According to the World Footwear Yearbook in 2014 India was the 8th largest exporter of footwear with a 1.2% share in total exports.