Anti Dumping Practice Of Chinese Shoe Enterprises Goes Forward In Exploration

As a representative of China's shoemaking enterprises, Guo Weiwen took the EU's anti-dumping duties on Chinese shoe products to the Deputy Secretary General of the alliance, and participated in the EU's opinion Solicitation on the revision of the green paper on trade remedy instruments in early 2007.

On the list of 32 questions, she carefully considered writing her own revision of EU trade remedy tools.

The EU has taken the initiative to consult with Chinese shoe manufacturers on the issue of trade remedy measures. This move to throw out olive branches is not an empty one.

It dates back to 2005, when the European Union launched anti-dumping investigations on export shoes and leather shoes, of which $52 million 550 thousand was involved in footwear and $730 million in leather shoes.

The case involved more than 1200 shoemaking enterprises and about 4000000 workers in China.

Therefore, it is known as the largest anti-dumping case initiated by the European Union in China in the past 10 years.

At the beginning of the survey, about 150 enterprises in China participated in the lawsuit.

However, after more than half a year's investigation, the European Union has refused to give all 13 Chinese footwear companies being sampled for market economy status.

The move led to the 7 Guangdong leather shoes manufacturers, which were sampled by the European Commission, such as Wan bang, and the Panyu Chuangxin shoe industry, which had not been sampled but filled in the questionnaire. They held a meeting in Guangzhou to discuss the countermeasures. They agreed to initiate the establishment of the EU anti-dumping suit against China's shoe products and carry out collective defense.

After all efforts, China's defense footwear enterprises won the first victory - the EU canceled anti-dumping investigations on labor safety shoes.

Since then, the EU's anti-dumping duties on Chinese shoe products have been facing a positive confrontation with the EU's anti-dumping measures to protect the common interests of Chinese shoe companies.

In October 2006, the European Union formally decided to impose a 16.5% anti-dumping duty on leather shoes enterprises in China.

For this reason, 9 enterprises in China have to sue the case and strive for zero tax rate.

Liang Yanping, a staff member of the administrative center of AOKANG group, told reporters that although the proportion of leather shoes products exported to the EU is not large, the European market is still an ideal export market from the perspective of the development of the whole market.

He said: "now the European shoe industry has entered the" sunset ", and the EU market will become a battleground for non EU enterprises sooner or later.

Chinese enterprises should take precautions to pave the way for the future.

If we do not actively respond to the lawsuit this time, we may face higher tax rates and longer tax periods in the future.

"Now, the confrontation between the 9 enterprises and the European Union has been in a tug of war.

After a full 1 years' waiting, not long ago, enterprises received the first round of written reply from the European Union Ministerial Council and other interested parties forwarded by the first instance court of the European Union.

We should continue to appeal and not give up any opportunity. It is understood that in recent years, in the anti-dumping strategy, our country often adopts the first collective defense, striving to gain market economy status, and then individually appeals for individual enterprises to strive for zero tax rate.

However, in the course of the EU's anti-dumping measures against China's EU footwear enterprises, Wan bang and other large enterprises played the role of trade associations to a certain extent.

Sheng Jianming, a professor of law at the University of foreign trade and economics, affirmed this way of defense. This is a positive significance for Chinese shoe enterprises in the anti dumping investigations against the European Union.

In the face of foreign anti-dumping investigations, Chinese enterprises should dare to deal with, and make reasonable use of rules to protect their own interests.

"Not only that, he believes that this cooperation defense can be said to be an opportunity to pform the new bottom-up trade association system:" this leading enterprise led cooperation mechanism can enable enterprises to better share information.

Reporters learned that AOKANG also joined 3 other companies when appealed to the European Union. Dong Shurong, director of the Legal Affairs Department of the Beijing WTO affairs center, said the benefits were obvious: "effective joint management of the organization can not only better share information and resources, strive for the best coping effects, but also share the expensive lawyer fees.

However, from the change of the number of responding, we can see that many of the enterprises that previously participated in the package defense did not join the appeals war group, but Guo Weiwen was unable to do so: "in addition to considering the cost of litigation, in the previous defense, many European companies lost their trust because of the fact that the European Union had too many political factors involved.

In addition, she also told reporters that in recent years, the adjustment of the national macro policies to the processing trade and the implementation of the labor law also affect the attitude of the enterprises to foreign anti-dumping to some extent.

Now many domestic enterprises are considering their future development direction, trying to pfer their production base to other countries.