Mongolian foreign trade

Mongolia's National Statistics Office reports that Mongolia exported raw and processed livestock hides and skins worth US$31 million in the first ten months of 2006, compared with US$21.2 million in the same period in 2005. Exports during the ten-month period included sheep or lamb leather worth US$17.7 million, as well as goat leather worth US$5.7 million. Mongolia produced 245,800 pieces of sheepskin leather in the first ten months of 2006, an increase of 96.3% compared with the same period the previous year.