The Institute of Industrial Studies and Marketing - IEMI Market Intelligence recently presented data from a research on Brazilian footwear. According to estimation, pair production should be 3.5% higher in 2016, and consumption shows 2.1% higher.
Data such as the evolution of apparent consumption and the participation of imported in the supply of the internal market also show that the volume manufactured in 2016, must reach 885 million pairs, by 855 million 2015. The number of importers must reach 28 million. And the expected consumption for the internal market is 780 million pairs, while exports must total 133 million pairs, with a high of 7.0%.
Source: FIMEC portal