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Leather, footwear exports up 25% in FY25; may hit $6.5 bn in FY26
Hindustan Times Jammu
|April 22, 2025
The country's leather, non-leather footwear and products' exports rose by about 25% year-on-year to $5.7 billion in 2024-25 and the shipments are likely to cross the $6.5 billion mark this fiscal, exporters' body CLE said on Monday.
NEW DELHI:
The Council for Leather Exports (CLE) said that demands in both developed and developing countries are "healthy".
"In 2024-25, we have exceeded the exports target by $1 billion set up by the department of commerce and going by this trend, our exports will cross $6.5 billion in 2025-26," CLE Executive Director R Selvam said.
This story is from the April 22, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Jammu.
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