Market Activity & Analysis

There is some buzz in the trade that the US hide market grounded last week. While this is difficult to confirm, follow through over the next few weeks should sort this out. A few offer prices are similar to last week’s levels and some suppliers have expressed a fair number of early inquiries and bids, although many are quite cheap. It is reasonable to say demand in the weeks ahead of, during and proceeding the ACLE (August 30-September 1) will…