AOKANG Is Not Only In Litigation But Also In "Two Line Operations".

A few days ago, a news came out from AOKANG group that in order to deal with the sunset review of the EU anti-dumping, the company will take the "two line operation": on the one hand, it actively leads the Chinese shoe enterprises collectively to respond to the sunset review; on the other hand, it continues the EU court proceedings, and resolutely resolves all the legal proceedings.

It is reported that the European Commission announced on October 4th that it will conduct "sunset review" on anti-dumping measures for leather shoes in China and Vietnam.

This means that the EU's anti-dumping duties on leather shoes and children's shoes imported from China for 16.5% years in 2006 will be extended again.

On October 8th, at the coordination meeting of the Chinese leather shoes anti-dumping review coordination meeting held in Wenzhou, Xie Rongfang, Secretary General of Wenzhou shoe leather association, said that the "sunset review" of the European Commission is a challenge for Wenzhou's footwear industry. It is also an opportunity for Wenzhou shoe enterprises to take the initiative to unite and strive for tomorrow for enterprises.

Enterprises have been fully operational AOKANG "two line operations" is understood that the sunset review is mainly aimed at "completely abolish anti-dumping duties" for the purpose of "fight no damage defense" as a foothold.

The investigation authorities took the sampling procedure. 20 days ago, the enterprises involved submitted the sampling table. In the beginning of November, the European Union would announce the sampling enterprises, and the enterprises being extracted entered the written defense procedure, which lasted for 37 days.

It is reported that recently, most shoe enterprises in Wenzhou want to form an enterprise alliance under the appeal of Wenzhou shoe leather industry association, and actively prepare sample materials.

At the same time, AOKANG group said it was prepared to carry out "two line operations". In 2006, five Chinese shoe companies such as AOKANG filed anti-dumping proceedings against the European Court of justice. After two years' written reply by the court, the oral defense procedure will be held at the end of this year or early next year.

On the other hand, AOKANG and other Wenzhou shoe enterprises are actively preparing to sample the materials and carry out the "sunset review" side by side with other domestic shoe companies.

The possibility of winning collective action is even greater. According to AOKANG's lawsuit, the Attorney General of the European Union is also the main representative of the Chinese shoe company, who is responding to the sunset review. Pu Ling said that in a non binding vote held by the European Union in September 17th, 15 of the 27 EU member states were against the extension of anti-dumping measures.

This shows that we hope to abolish anti-dumping duties and European countries are in the majority.

The EU's internal industry also has some degree of disagreement. Many EU leather shoe importers and multinational investors in China, in the current economic downturn, they also hope that the EU will lift the high tariffs on leather shoes in China and Vietnam as soon as possible.

In addition, European consumers, in order to reduce the cost of consumption, also said they did not want the EU to maintain anti-dumping duties on leather shoes in China and Vietnam.

As a result, the Chinese enterprises' serious treatment and joint action may be more effective.

Therefore, the review of "sunset" or "sunset" is the key focus of the program, and it will also directly affect whether Chinese shoe companies will continue to be subject to EU anti-dumping measures.

(Wang Hailong) related links > - (-) sunset review: no change of measures is only to decide whether to "maintain" or "Cancel".

Review during the period: the measures can be changed, but the decision to apply for market economy status and appropriately reduce the tax rate is necessary.

(two) according to relevant data, the export volume of leather shoes in Zhejiang decreased by 22% and the total export volume dropped by 12% in the first half of 2008, under the influence of EU anti-dumping.

The figures show that the unit price of Chinese shoe exports is rising, but at the same time, the rising part is offset by the rising cost of various factors.

According to the data of Wenzhou shoe leather industry association, 1-6 months of this year, Wenzhou shoes exports to the EU only increased by 14.4%, a sharp decline compared with the same period last year, and the growth rate in August continued to drop to 9%.