The aim of this work is to describe the situation in hide handling, tanning, export and import processes in Latvia. There is going to be explored cause of hide manufacture elimination, estimated work of Latvia’s cattle slaughterhouses and examined potential supplier of raw material for hide manufactures. There is brought out a mean problem – hide storing and preservation possibilities in Latvia’s cattle slaughterhouses. There are small possibilities (now) to save half of unutilized raw materials. Hide manufacturing industry is the oldest industrial industry in Latvia. There is only one working hide handling manufacture in Latvia – Joint Stock company Ritales, located in Jelgava city. This hide handling manufacture uses Latvia’s livestock. Most used livestock are cattle (cows and oxen). There are 83 legal livestock slaughterhouses in Latvia. Most of those slaughterhouses orient oneself on pigs and cattle (like cows and calves) slaughter. In nowadays Latvia have been declined from “golden crater” – hide manufacturing and processing. These actions were in Latvia ante-bellum. There is an unsolved question about the use of hide and skin (also leather) for the industrial needs.