Footwear industry suffers from weak demand since 2012

The Brazilian footwear faces a weak demand from 2012, according to the President of the Brazilian footwear industries Association (Abicalçados), Hector Klein. "There was a breakdown in the budget of families, which resulted in a decrease in purchases of goods of consumption."
According to a survey of the entity based on data from the IBGE, there was no retraction of 10.9% in sales volume and 6.2% in revenue last year. The figures include textiles and clothing, as well as shoes.
This year, however, the domestic manufacturers have benefited with increased exports. Until August, was recorded a high of 13.2% in values. In total of embedded pairs, expansion is 0.5%. United States, Argentina and Paraguay are the main markets, but, while the first decreased their purchases of 11.4% in Brazil in this year, the second and the third raised in 38.9% and 86.4% (in value), respectively.
On the other side of the scale, imports retreated 0.3% in value, but they grew 3.7% in the number of shoes. China appears in third place in the ranking of the largest sellers, behind Viet Nam and Indonesia, because of the anti-dumping measure adopted by Brazil against the country.