Jordan’s Department of Statistics reports that Jordan imported leather and leather products worth US%10.8 million in 2006, compared with US$9 million the previous year. Jordanian exports of the same types of commodities were worth only US$71,709) last year, following exports worth US$612,208 in 2005. Exports of raw lhides and skins last year were worth US$7.7 million, as against US$6 million in 2005.