Us Importers Of Clothing And Footwear Are Expected To Receive Large Tax Rebates.

The importers of clothing and footwear in the United States are expected to receive large rebates after paying different taxes on imported men's, women's and children's products.

Enterprises including Totes-Isotoner, Steve Madden, Asics, Columbia Sportswear and Target claimed that the unfair discriminatory taxation method was adopted because of the difference in sex and age applied by the US government, so they lodged a complaint.

For example, the import tariff of men's swimming trunks is 28%, while that of women's swimwear is only 12%, while that of women's shoes (import duty 10%) is 1.5% higher than that of men's shoes (import duty 8.5%).

According to recent research data from Global Data Mining, which provides information analysis and reporting services, about 300 items of Harmonized Tariff codes are affected by discriminatory tariffs, of which more than 300 are age discrimination and 1900 are gender discrimination.

The data also showed that over the past 2 years, American Importers overpaid such discriminatory tariffs amounting to more than US $1 billion 300 million.

In January 5th (2007), he first filed a complaint against the US government against the International Trade Court in Totes-Isotoner. The company claimed that the import tariff of men's leather gloves is currently 14%, while that of women's and children's leather gloves is only 12.6%.

However, fewer than 50 importers in the United States have filed similar litigation cases to safeguard their interests.

According to the act of the United States, importers have to import data for the past two years in the claim suits, and protect all other imports until the end of the trial.