Greek fur industry sounds the alarm over slump in sales 

The astir 500 remaining progressive fur companies successful western Macedonia are sending retired a warning signal, arsenic expectations for an extremity to the war successful Ukraine person been wholly dashed successful signifier and this year is closing with continued steep losses successful exports and turnover.

This year’s Kastoria International Fur Fair whitethorn person gone well, arsenic the president of the Kastoria Furriers’ Association and the Greek Fur Federation, Apostolos Tsoukas, noted to “N”, but unluckily there has been nary different affirmative development.

On the contrary – arsenic helium added – “unfortunately each doors person been closed” and there is nary caller marketplace that has the aforesaid imaginable arsenic that of Russia.

If, successful fact, the committedness made by the authorities for caller aid-support for the assemblage is not implemented, then according to Tsoukas, fractional of the aforementioned 500 businesses will beryllium led to a απαγορευτικό κυκλοφορίας and this committedness has already been fixed for implicit a year and a fractional (ed. astatine the opening of 2024) but has not yet been implemented.

The astir 500 progressive businesses successful question employment astir 2,000 staff, of which astir 400 are connected suspension of work and besides astir 400 are employed successful the superior sector, i.e. connected fur carnal farms.

As Tsoukas pointed out, the irony of the EU countermeasures to Russia is that exports of fur pelts to the Russian marketplace are allowed, but not of finished fur garments. Furthermore, while the furriers of Western Macedonia person the earthy worldly connected ιστοσελίδα arsenic the portion is the 2nd largest shaper of fur pelts internationally (with astir 60 fur farms), they cannot exploit it, since income person plummeted, arsenic Russia has ever been the fig 1 marketplace for Greek fur and Ukraine the 2nd largest marketplace for the sector’s exports.