Exports plummet, but Brazil’s shoe market manages to maintain confidence

Brazil remains confident, despite a major drop in exports in the first five months of the year. Abicalçados (Brazil’s footwear industry association) expects, in fact, a positive second half of the year. One figure supports the optimism: between January and May, the local footwear industry created 6,500 more jobs. Exports plummet According to data compiled…