U.S. EXPORT SALES FOR WEEK ENDING 4/24/2025

Hides and Skins: Net sales of 106,500 pieces for 2025 were down 42 percent from the previous week and 59 percent from the prior 4-week average. Increases primarily for South Korea (65,600 whole cattle hides, including decreases of 800 pieces), Mexico (64,600 whole cattle hides, including decreases of 1,200 pieces), Italy (19,100 whole cattle hides), Thailand (18,300 whole cattle hides, including decreases of 400 pieces), and Argentina (13,600 whole cattle hides), were offset by reductions for China (81,200 pieces) and India (600 pieces). In addition, total net sales reductions of 200 kip skins were for Belgium. Exports of 200,700 whole cattle hides were up 18 percent from the previous week, but down 32 percent from the prior 4-week average. The destinations were primarily to Mexico (67,800 pieces), China (58,100 pieces), South Korea (25,400 pieces), Thailand (21,800 pieces), and Brazil (18,700 pieces). Exports of 1,200 kip skins were to Belgium.

Net sales of 75,100 wet blues for 2025 were down 66 percent from the previous week and 46 percent from the prior 4-week average. Increases primarily for Vietnam (57,500 unsplit, including decreases of 100 unsplit), Italy (10,300 unsplit, including decreases of 67,300 unsplit), South Korea (9,600 grain splits), Indonesia (8,000 unsplit), and China (4,400 unsplit), were offset by reductions for Brazil (14,400 unsplit) and Hong Kong (1,100 unsplit). Total net sales of 67,200 wet blues unsplit for 2026 were for Italy. Exports of 109,500 wet blues were up 16 percent from the previous week, but down 15 percent from the prior 4-week average. The destinations were primarily to Thailand (30,500 unsplit), Italy (27,900 unsplit and 1,500 grain splits), Vietnam (27,000 unsplit), Hong Kong (13,800 unsplit), and Taiwan (4,800 unsplit). No net sales of splits were reported for the week. Exports of 41,100 splits were to Vietnam.