Responding to the Environmental Challenge
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Profile Pakistan's leather industry is one of the major foreign exchange earners for the country. About 90% of its products are exported in finished form. During 1996-97, the production of leather was about 14.3 million m and export earning amounted to US$ 642 million. There are some 600 tanneries in the formal sector and an equally large number of tanneries in the informal sector. These are concentrated in a few clusters of which Kasur (180 tanneries), Karachi (170), and Sialkot (135) are the most important.
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