Leather is one of the major pillars of Pakistan’s economy, standing as the third-largest export sector and contributing approximately four per cent to the national GDP. While leather production utilises hides and skins (a byproduct of the meat industry), it is not immune to environmental and social risks.

Traditionally, due to a fragmented supply chain, informal and unmechanized slaughtering, Pakistan lacked a structured, digitized system capable of tracing hides from origin to finished product. Manual documentation and limited digital integration restricted the sector’s ability to demonstrate compliance, ensure ethical sourcing, and build buyer confidence.

Under the project ‘Pakistan Leather Sector: Traceability, Cleaner Production and Circularity’, the traceability pilot was designed to establish a robust digital backbone for end-to-end leather traceability in Pakistan. The result is tracemyleather.com, a fully operational digital traceability platform that tracks leather from supplier and slaughterhouse to tannery and finished product.