Americas (excluding intra-trade) Raw hides and skins of sheep or lambs, with wool Import quantity

Americas (excluding intra-trade) Raw hides and skins of sheep or lambs, with wool Import quantity: Key Points

• Americas (excluding intra-trade)'s raw hides and skins of sheep or lambs, with wool import quantity tells a 10% story: 1.80K tonnes at the 2014 starting line, 1.61K tonnes by 2023, down overall.
• 2015: shoots up to 2.72K tonnes (+51%).
• 2017: falls away sharply to 1.06K tonnes (-51%).
• 2018: surges to 2.33K tonnes (+120%).
• 2020-2021: leaps to 3.02K tonnes (+58%).
• 2023: The finish line reads 1.61K tonnes, 10.2% behind 2014.

What Drove The 2021 Trade Rebound

There's no single story that fits every year here. Americas (excluding intra-trade)'s figure moves both ways across the period — don't extrapolate from the most recent year alone.

This isn't a uniquely local rebound — global trade recovered broadly in 2021 as pandemic-era restrictions eased and demand returned.

Use the direction of this line more than any single year's value — raw hides and skins of sheep or lambs, with wool import quantity figures like this one are most reliable as a trend indicator, less reliable as a precise year-by-year scorecard.

This is Americas (excluding intra-trade) data, published by the source linked below. Indicator series like this are usually modeled/estimated between survey years, not measured fresh every year — trust the multi-year direction over any one data point.

Small absolute numbers like these amplify percentage swings — the same-sized change in volume looks dramatic as a percentage here in a way it wouldn't for a bigger trade flow. Read the raw numbers, not just the percent.