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 – March 2015 reached 6 494.4 million US dollars, compared to 5 938.0 million US dollars in similar period of the previous year. This represents a positive growth of 9.4%.

Leather footwear exports totaled 2 277.5 million US dollars in the first eleven months of the fiscal year, growing 11.9% from similar period in the previous year (2 035.5 million US dollars).

In the same period exports of finished leather increased by 3.5% and leather goods by 7.3%.

Worth being highlighted is the performance of exports of non-leather footwear, with a significant growth of 51.7%, reaching 306.4 million US dollars during the period April 2014 - March 2015.

According to the same source, the main destinations for the exports of leather and leather products during the period were Germany (12.3%), US (11.8%), UK (11.6%) 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.