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ArticlePortuguese footwear exports rise in first nine months of 2025
In the first nine months of 2025, Portuguese footwear exports rose by 3.8 percent year-over-year in volume to 53.3 million pairs and by 2.1 percent in value to €1.322 billion, according to data released by the Portuguese footwear association Apiccaps. About 80 percent of Portuguese exports went to other European ...
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ArticlePortuguese shoemakers see US tariffs as an opportunity
The Portuguese footwear association Apiccaps said the US import duties announced by the US President, Donald Trump, “could be an opportunity for Portugal.” It noted that the round of tariffs released on July 31 by the US administration, and due to come into effect on Aug. 7 unless bilateral trade ...
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Portuguese footwear industry signs new labor contract
The Portuguese footwear association Apiccaps said that it has reached a labor agreement with Fesete, the local trade union covering the textile, clothing, footwear and leather industries, covering 42,000 workers and 1,900 companies in the country. The new contract was approved by 10 of the 11 unions forming Fesete ...
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ArticlePortuguese footwear exports up 5.4% in value in Q1
In the first quarter of 2025, the Portuguese footwear industry exported 20 million pairs of shoes, worth €453 million. Compared to the previous year, shipments were up by 4.9 percent in volume and 5.4 percent in value, according to the Portuguese footwear association Apiccaps. “This is a very promising start ...
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ArticlePortuguese footwear exports rise in volume, fall in value
The Portuguese footwear industry exported 67 million pairs of shoes worldwide in 2024, up 3.3 percent from 2023. However, in value, exports fell by 6.5 perdent to €1.702 billion, according to the Portuguese footwear association Apiccaps citing preliminary data from the country’s statistics institute, INE. Portugal exports more than 90 ...
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ArticlePortugal’s footwear industry plans to invest €600m by 2030 as it rivals with Italy
The Portuguese footwear industry plans to invest €600 million by 2030 to reinforce its positioning in the luxury segment, according to Luís Onofre, who was re-elected in January president of Apiccaps, the Portuguese association of footwear, components and leather goods manufacturers. Citing data from the European Union’s statistics office Eurostat, ...
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ArticleHow reshoring requests proved short-lived for Portuguese producers
Demand to reshore footwear manufacturing from Asia to Portugal has petered out after growing substantially in 2022, several Portuguese producers told Shoe Intelligence. Last year, as high inflation, energy prices and China’s zero-covid policies upended the global footwear supply chain, Portuguese manufacturers were approached by clients who wanted to reshore ...
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Portuguese exports up over 20%
In 2022, Portuguese footwear exports rose by 20.2 percent in value to over €2 billion and by 10.5 percent in volume to 76 million pairs, according to data released by Apiccaps, the Portuguese footwear, components and leather goods manufacturers association. About 80 percent of exports were shipped to other European ...
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Portuguese footwear exports up 4.3% in first 4 months
Portuguese footwear exports rose by 4.3 percent to €497 million in the first four months of 2021. In April, exports surged by 121 percent compared with a year earlier, when trade was disrupted by the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. A total of 22 million pairs of shoes were sold ...
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Spain, Portugal to benefit from accelerated reshoring
The novel coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic could lead to an acceleration in the reshoring of manufacturing to Europe. Alicia Garcia-Herrera, senior fellow at the European think tank Bruegel, said in an interview with Exame magazine that the shift could be significant for countries such as Spain and Portugal. The move out ...
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Portuguese footwear factories are producing masks
Several footwear companies in Portugal’s northern towns of Felgueiras, Oliveira da Azemeis and São João da Madeira are temporarily replacing the production of footwear with the manufacturing of medical masks, according to the website of the country’s footwear association, Apiccaps. The equipment will be donated to healthcare professionals and nursing ...
