CONSUMER PRODUCTS AND RETAIL E-SSENTIALS

Terminology

Definition

Leather and tanned skins (‘Couro e peles curtidas (curtidos))

• A product obtained from animal skin which retains its original fibrous structure more or less intact, 
• Tanned to prevent rotting,
• Hair or wool may or may not have been removed, 
• May have been splitted into layers or segmented either before or after tanning, 
• Coating, if applied, must not be thicker than 0.15 mm.

NOTE: If the tanned hide has lost its natural structure, as it has been mechanically or chemically disintegrated into fibrous particles, small particles or powder, and then reconstituted, after combining or not with a binding agent, in sheets or other forms, it cannot be considered leather or tanned skin.

Full grain leather 
(‘Couro de flor integral’) 

Leather that retain its original grain surface as exposed by removal of the epidermis and with none of the surface removed by buffing, snuffing or splitting.

Coated Leather (‘Couro revestido) 

Leather with surface coating that does not exceed one third of the total thickness but more than 0.15 mm.

Crust leather (‘Croute de couro’) 

Leather with complete removal of the grain layer.