Anti Dumping Burns Macao'S Warm Shoes And Recognise The Bad Strategy Of Playing Hide And Seek

The EU's anti circumvention investigation launched on the export of Chinese leather shoes to Macao and Europe has finally achieved substantial results.

Recently, EU Member States decided to take anti-dumping measures against Chinese leather shoes to expand to apply to Macao, in order to punish Chinese shoe enterprises by way of Macao to avoid EU anti-dumping duties.

Since April 7, 2006, the EU's anti-dumping duty on Chinese leather shoes has been pferred from 4.8% to 19.4% in six months.

Since then, the anti-dumping duty of up to 16.5% has been levied on leather shoes in China since October 7, 2006.

According to the data from the China Arts and crafts import and Export Chamber of Commerce, the speed of China's shoe products entering the EU has slowed down sharply in the era of tight trade. In 2007 1-11, the number of exports to the EU was 110 million pairs, which was 6.7% lower than that of the same period last year.

However, with the slowdown in the flow of Chinese shoe products into the EU, the number of leather shoes exported from Macao to Europe has suddenly increased.

As we all know, Macao is not the production base of leather shoes at all. It is easy for the European Union to judge that many shoes are borrowed from other countries and regions to Macao for re export to Europe.

Therefore, last year, the EU launched an investigation on the measures taken by the EU to circumvent anti-dumping measures. It found that some Chinese footwear companies used Macao as an export platform for their products to avoid paying anti-dumping duties on leather shoes.

Luo Zhigang, director of the office of Red Dragonfly Group, told reporters in the market herald that red dragonfly has strict and professional export channels to the EU, and there is no problem of circumvention.

However, he also admitted that quite a lot of enterprises in the same trade were passing around Macao to export leather shoes to the EU, but the proportion of the EU's total exports of leather shoes to China was very small.

Liao Yue, chairman of the Tamar footwear industry, believes that changing the competitive strategy of low price exports, increasing the technological content of products, and fostering and creating new competitive advantages in the international market is the long way to avoid anti-dumping.