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To: Gib Bogle who wrote (34553)	5/7/2008 10:30:37 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217830

Sandals are for poolside. From the hotel room to the beach and back. You thrown a little water and they are clean. Convenience and comfort. I leather cum synthetic materials because here is very hot and I like open footwear. But sandals are for other purposes.

To: Gib Bogle who wrote (34553)	5/7/2008 11:20:28 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217830

Leather is currently one of the main products Brazil exports to China and represents a third of total Brazilian foreign leather sales. We raise cows. Slaughter them. Export the beef, and export the leather to China. China has unebatable low labor cost. They beat us in the low end. We went to the high end, and stole the market from the Italians. Brazilian leather exports in 2007 rose 17 percent against 2006 – from US$1.87 billion to US$2.19 billion, according to the CICB. Brazil: Macau may facilitate trade of leather between Brazil and China [ 2008-05-06 ] Sao Paulo, Brazil, 6 May – The executive-director of the Centre for Leather-tanning Industries of Brazil (CICB), Luiz Augusto Bittencourt, told Macauhub that, because of its location and language, Macau has enormous potential to make the trade of Brazilian leather with China easier. Leather is currently one of the main products Brazil to China and represents a third of total Brazilian foreign leather sales. Leather also accounts for half of Macau’s imports from Brazil. In 2007 Brazil’s leather exports exceed US$2 billion for the first time, with China as the main market, according to the Brazilian association for the leather tanning industry, CICB. In total, Brazilian leather exports in 2007 rose 17 percent against 2006 – from US$1.87 billion to US$2.19 billion, according to the CICB. By value Brazilian leather exports to China, Hong Kong and Macau follow sales of iron ore and soy and are in line with the sale of copper, wood and meat, according to figures from Brazil's Foreign Trade Ministry. In 2007, China absorbed 33 percent of sales of Brazilian leather essentially for the Chinese furniture and car industries. The second biggest market for Brazilian leather (28 percent) was Italy (28 percent), followed by the United States (11 percent). Brazil has the biggest herd in the world numbering 200 million heads of cattle and is also the country with the highest number of cattle slaughtered each year, of around 40 million. These amounts have fallen by 15 percent in the last two years, although Brazil remains in first place. Of the 40 million head of cattle slaughtered, between 30 and 35 percent are exported to China and their total value is of around US$1 billion per year. (macauhub)