EU "Shoe Lawsuit" Won The First Response To Chinese Shoe Enterprises For Another Year.

China's shoe anti-dumping lawsuit starts the second round of reply. Legal network Wenzhou, November 1, AOKANG, and other appeals from the EU anti dumping shoe companies hired this afternoon: the first instance court of the European Court of first instance has completed the first round of defense debate on anti-dumping proceedings filed by AOKANG and other Chinese shoe companies.

China's appeal shoe companies such as AOKANG group, Wenzhou Tamar, Guangdong golden shoe and new HK dollar have all received the first round written reply from the European Union Ministerial Council and other interested parties forwarded by the first instance court of the European Union.

In October 7, 2006, the EU imposed a 16.5% anti-dumping duty policy on leather shoes originating in China for a period of 2 years.

In October 23rd, AOKANG group first decided to hire a lawyer to initiate a lawsuit in the first instance court of the European Union.

In December 29th, AOKANG group, Wenzhou TIMA, Guangdong Jin Lu and Guangdong freshmen Hong Kong dollar and other shoe enterprises submitted litigation materials to the European Court of first instance.

After the court of first instance accepted the litigation request of Chinese footwear enterprises, the two rounds of defense will be carried out, the total time will be about 2 years.

In the first round of reply, the Council of the European Union made a defense reply to the lawsuit filed by Chinese shoe companies such as AOKANG.

However, in the first round of defense, the European Commission did not enter the judicial process as a stakeholder, but only retained the right of oral defense.

In April this year, the European Commission has put forward a request for intervention in the European Union Court of first instance as an interest related direction and expressed support for the Council of the European Union.

Then in July, the European Footwear Association and 17 shoe manufacturers in Italy also made requests and intervened in the judicial process.

Pu Lingchen introduced that according to the European Union's anti-dumping judicial procedure, the second round of defense procedures was launched immediately after the first round of defense procedures, and the time would be one year.

In the second round of defense, China will mainly defend the defense points raised by the accused party in the first round of defense, such as the technical problems of dumping calculation, and how to apply the sampling investigation procedure.

It is understood that the EU anti-dumping measures have been implemented for a year, and the export of China's leather shoes industry has been greatly affected.

According to the data provided by the China Light Industry Arts and crafts import and export chamber, the number of imports of leather shoes anti-dumping products decreased by 7.76% in the first half of this year compared with the same period.

Among them, imports from China and Vietnam declined significantly from the countries that imposed anti-dumping duties, such as the number of imports from China was 86 million pairs, and the import amount was 943 million US dollars, respectively, which was 26.37% and 21.36% lower than the same period last year.

However, there are signs that the number of leather shoes exported in China is being replaced by leather shoes from other countries.

Chinese shoe manufacturers said that many European customers turned to countries and regions such as Pakistan, Indonesia, India and Macao.

There are also media reports that the industry in Austria analyzed the market reaction after the implementation of the measure in the past year, and found that the import of cheap footwear did not decrease.

People in the industry say that because the shoe industry is a typical "jumping" industry, which relies mainly on labor and relative low cost to achieve competitive benefits, the EU's so-called trade protection measures to avoid the impact of the European shoe industry are of no practical significance.

"This result is obviously contrary to their original intention, and the EU should reflect deeply."

Wang Zhentao, vice president of the China Leather Association and President of AOKANG group, said that Chinese shoe enterprises will strive to achieve breakthroughs in the second stage of the judicial process.