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South America (excluding intra-trade) Leather used & waste Import quantity
What is South America (excluding intra-trade)'s leather used & waste import quantity (t)? As of 2023, it's 21.6 Tons, down from 690.9 Tons in 2014.
Author: Wantstats Research TeamSource: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Wantstats Repository
| Label | Leather used & waste Import quantity (t) |
|---|---|
| 2014 | 690.93 Tons |
| 2015 | 18.18 Tons |
| 2016 | 358.12 Tons |
| 2017 | 62.56 Tons |
| 2018 | 0.9 Tons |
| 2019 | 5.25 Tons |
| 2020 | 0.52 Tons |
| 2021 | 130.36 Tons |
| 2022 | 83.86 Tons |
| 2023 | 21.65 Tons |
Data Source: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Wantstats Repository
South America (excluding intra-trade) Leather used & waste Import quantity: Key Points
- In 2023, South America (excluding intra-trade)'s leather used & waste Import quantity stood at 21.65 t — down from 690.93 t in 2014, a fall of roughly 97%.
- 2016: spikes to 358.12 t (+1870%).
- 2018: drops hard to 0.9000 t (-99%).
- 2019: leaps to 5.25 t (+483%).
- 2021: surges to 130.36 t (+24969%).
- Take the whole run together and it's a 96.9% loss, landing at 21.65 t by 2023.
What Broke Global Trade In 2020
Don't anchor on the most recent year. With this much back-and-forth, the latest reading is one data point among several similarly-weighted ones, not the start of a new trend.
Read this drop as part of the worldwide pandemic trade shock — lockdowns disrupted shipping, production, and demand together, and most countries' trade data shows the same pattern.
This rebound fits a global pattern: as economies reopened in 2021, trade flows recovered broadly, driven by pent-up demand and easing restrictions worldwide.
Source here is a national/international statistics body, not a live measurement — most time series like this are interpolated or modeled between actual survey years. Treat the trend as the real signal, individual years as approximate.
This is a small trade volume in absolute terms — at this scale, a single shipment, buyer, or contract can move the national total by a large percentage. Don't read year-to-year swings here as an economy-wide signal.
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