BRASILIA: Brazil’s furniture exports fell 14% year on year in January 2015. Exports from Rio Grande do Sul state, the leading furniture exporter in the country fell 15% over the same period, ITTO reports.
Brazil exported furniture worth around $38 million in January this year well down on the $44 million registered from January 2014. A sharp decline in export demand was recorded for Angola (-60%), the Netherlands (-53%) and Uruguay (-7%).
Exports from Rio Grande do Sul declined from $13.7 million in January 2014 to $11.6 million in January 2015 as a result of falling damand in Colombia (-77%), France (-65%), Argentina (65%), Mexico (60%) and Chile (-49%).
