According to news released on CLIA’s website, in the first ten months the total export of leather industry in China increased by 23.5% year on year to 88.52 billion US dollars that accounting for 2.96% of the total export of the country. In term of import the value was seen decline of 11.2% year on year to US $14.52 billion, the industry achieved 33.8% of the trade surplus to US $74.10 billion that accounts for 10.17% of the country's total trade surplus.