Seminar strives to improve relations in international hide trade

摘要

The president of the International Council for Hide Skins and Leather Traders' Associations (ICHSLTA), Madam Zhang Shuhua has announced that her organisation and the International Council of Tanners (ICT) have agreed, after a meeting at APLF on March 31, to set up separate committees to review the international hide and leather trading contracts (numbers six and seven).rnThe two committees-whose members have still to be named-will spend the next 12 months collecting proposals for amendments to the contracts from around the industry and bring those proposals to APLF next year for further discussion.rnMadam Zhang said on announcing the review: "The contracts have been updated several times during the 80 years they have been in place but the last update was in 1999, ten years ago. Trade patterns have changed since then."