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TOTAL ACCUMULATED EXPORTS OF CATTLE HIDES BY COUNTRY
RANKED IN DESCENDING ORDER FOR MARKETING YEAR 2008
COMPARED WITH 4 PREVIOUS MARKETING YEARS
(1,000 Metric Tons)
2008 2007 2006 2005 2004
COUNTRY EXPORTS RANK EXPORTS RANK EXPORTS RANK EXPORTS RANK EXPORTS RANK
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CHINA : 12001.6 1 12044.3 1 11195.8 1 9037.2 1 7387.5 1
KOR REP : 6215.4 2 5182.2 2 5077.5 2 5916.5 2 7178.7 2
TAIWAN : 1784.5 3 2235.6 3 2261.8 3 2070.2 3 2157.4 3
HG KONG : 1383.2 4 1002.0 6 1165.7 6 1185.5 5 1917.8 4
MEXICO : 1184.0 5 1412.9 4 1453.5 4 1411.3 4 1380.4 6
VIETNAM : 847.8 6 781.2 8 220.4 9 218.9 9 122.1 10
THAILND : 828.3 7 931.6 7 651.5 7 725.9 7 764.2 7
JAPAN : 799.8 8 1183.7 5 1218.1 5 964.0 6 1530.0 5
ITALY : 322.1 9 382.4 9 338.4 8 406.5 8 433.4 8
INDIA : 80.3 10 47.4 14 0.8 24 0.1 28 0.0 0
TURKEY : 62.2 11 76.8 10 33.3 13 30.8 14 40.6 13
CANADA : 40.0 12 57.1 11 59.7 11 86.6 11 179.2 9
SPAIN : 14.7 13 50.2 13 37.8 12 0.6 27 0.9 21
PARAGUA : 13.0 14 0.0 0 3.2 17 0.0 0 0.0 0
BRAZIL : 12.6 15 0.0 0 26.8 14 0.0 0 0.0 0
URUGUAY : 8.8 16 50.4 12 0.0 0 1.4 20 2.5 18
INDNSIA : 5.0 17 17.8 15 2.6 18 58.8 12 14.9 15
TUNISIA : 2.1 18 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0
U KING : 1.8 19 0.0 0 1.4 20 19.2 16 2.2 19
CROATIA : 1.8 20 5.8 16 19.7 15 3.2 18 0.0 0
PAKISTN : 0.9 21 2.5 19 0.0 0 0.6 25 0.0 0
U AR EM : 0.7 22 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0
COLOMB : 0.5 23 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0
DOM REP : 0.0 0 4.4 17 99.7 10 112.5 10 29.5 14
SWEDEN : 0.0 0 2.8 18 0.7 25 0.0 0 0.0 0
NETHLDS : 0.0 0 0.7 20 0.0 0 0.0 0 51.6 12
SLOVENIA : 0.0 0 0.4 21 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0
BELGIUM : 0.0 0 0.0 0 4.2 16 0.0 0 0.0 0
C RICA : 0.0 0 0.0 0 1.6 19 7.4 17 0.0 0
PANAMA : 0.0 0 0.0 0 1.3 21 0.0 0 0.0 0
BULGAR : 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.9 22 0.6 26 0.0 0
FINLAND : 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.9 23 0.0 0 0.0 0
PORTUGL : 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.4 26 1.7 19 7.9 16
REP SAF : 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 35.2 13 121.9 11
ARGENT : 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 28.1 15 1.1 20
BOSNIA : 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.9 21 0.0 0
GERMANY : 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.7 22 4.7 17
AUSTRIA : 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.7 23 0.6 22
FRANCE : 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.7 24 0.0 0
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TOTAL : 25610.9 25472.1 23877.7 22325.9 23329.0