The exclusion of certain types of hides and skins from the EUDR (deforestation regulation) was made official on September 14, 2026. According to the Confederation of National Associations of Tanners and Dressers of the European Community (COTANCE), the measure corrects a difference in treatment between ...

The European Commission’s decision to exclude raw hides and ...

The European Union Anti-Deforestation Regulation, which has implications for the leather business, will have new implementation dates following the vote held on 26 November in the European Parliament. In that plenary session, the Council’s proposal to postpone its entry into force by one year was approved ...

An executive order signed by Donald Trump introduced new tariffs ...

​According to the Business Conditions Survey conducted by World ...

In early December, the European Council and the Parliament reached a provisional agreement on the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, bolstering the relevance of environmentally friendly products in the European Union.The initiative will take into account reparability, durability, upgradeability, ...

COTANCE (The European Leather Industry), together with CEC (European ...

​By 2023, an average increase of 0.3% in global footwear consumption is expected, and 0.2% in the domestic order, according to the respondents' answers, collected in the World Footwear's Business Conditions Survey.Disaggregated into various markets, in North America consumption should grow by 5%, followed ...

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