EU'S Anti-Dumping Against Chinese Leather Shoes Is Expected To End At The End Of The Month.

The European Commission announced on 16 May that anti-dumping measures against Chinese and Vietnamese leather shoes will expire soon because no application for review has been received.

The European Commission published the announcement in a communique published on the same day, which means that nearly four and a half years of EU anti-dumping on Chinese leather shoes is expected to end at the end of the month.

In order to protect the interests of some southern European shoe enterprises, the EU has formally imposed anti-dumping duties on leather shoes imported from China since October 2006, with the highest tax rate of 16.5%.

Because the case has caused great divergence within the EU, the EU Member States will eventually impose anti-dumping duties for a period of five years from two years to two years.

In October 2008, when the formal anti-dumping measure should have expired, the European Commission decided to review the anti-dumping case of Chinese leather shoes in order to decide whether to extend the anti-dumping measures.

During the review period, the original anti-dumping measures are still applicable.

In December 2009, the EU decided to reconsider the anti-dumping measures on Chinese leather shoes for another 15 months. The plan should expire at the end of this month.

The EU's anti-dumping against Chinese leather shoes, which has been up to four and a half years, has been unanimously opposed by the EU's powerful shoemaking enterprises, retailers and consumer groups, because it also undermines the interests of European shoe manufacturers in China, and even more consumers in Europe.

The European footwear alliance, representing the interests of more than 2000 European shoe manufacturers, has calculated that the European Union will lose hundreds of millions of euros to European consumers and businesses because the EU will extend anti-dumping duties on leather shoes in China and Vietnam until 2011, with an increase of about 1 billion euros.

But in the announcement, the European Commission also announced that it would closely monitor the export of Chinese and Vietnamese leather shoes to the EU for a year, and if necessary, appropriate measures would be taken promptly.

In response to the EU's anti-dumping measures, the Chinese government appealed to the World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement Mechanism in April 2010 and demanded that the EU's practice be violated international trade rules, and the ruling has not yet been made.