Furs and fashion markets

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Fur and fur fashion markets, 2000-2012

For auction prices are a good indicator of global climate of the fur industry. In recent years, fur prices, the level of recent years in the world's largest fur auction houses have been exceeded. According to the Fur Information Council of America (2010), U.S. fur sales overall were up 3.1% in 2010 over the previous year and sales of fur have risen by more than 30% in early 1990.

The latest figures from March 2012, instead of Fur Harvesters Auction (2012) in North Bay, Ontario, indicate that sales of fur this year the most successful in company history was, and the biggest selling records. Mink are, fox, muskrat, lynx, sable, beaver and coyote pelts some of which were in high demand in the auction houses in recent years.

Mink pelts, which had fallen to 10 U.S. dollars in 1990, was over $ 100 fur auction set in 2011. The price of mink has not only increased, but he had continued on the level of previous years. Mink is now almost 70% of all clothing sold in retail (Fur Information Council of America, 2010; Goddard, 2011).

A Saga Furs auction (2012), held in Finland in December 2011 were 100% of the saga blue fox 177 000 heads on the block to an increase of 12 percent on the previous price paid to the selling auction in September 2011 (Marc Kaufman Furs NY, 2011 ). Rossouw (2012) stated that the Arctic Fox has a previous record of sales in the last auction in Yellowknife, NWT kept beating, and a skin that has been going for the all-time high of $ 200.

Lynx was also the highest prices and the average values ​​in the history of the fur auction hit with many, many recorded sales of between $ 1,000 and $ 1,200. The demand for muskrat continue to rise over the past two years on, and the prices paid at auction increases as it passes through the interest of China in this article does not have power. There was also a lot of interest from Russia and China in the purchase of Canadian sable (Downey, 2012; Rossouw, 2012).

In recent years the control of fur markets has shifted from West to East. Therefore, fur prices in Canada has now decided to end the world with China and Russia held grip on the price (Graham, 2011). Since the opening of the huge clothing markets in Asia in recent years, China has opened the way for the purchase of fur auction houses with strong support from Russia, Greece and Korea. China has become one of the biggest consumer of fur, and also one of the largest manufacturers of fur. Hong Kong is now considered the world's largest exporter of fur garments of better quality. Countries such as Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and now are large importers of finished fur (Downey, 2012; fur salons, Beijing, 2012, Fur Harvesters Auction, Inc., 2012 Goddard, 2011; Kastorian Fur, 2004).