Brazil Bombard China'S Leather Shoes With Anti-Dumping Duties

Key hints: the Brazil Foreign Trade Commission made a decision to levy an anti-dumping duty of $13.85 per pair of shoes imported from China.

The measure takes effect from the date of promulgation of the official communiqu of Brazil and is valid for 5 years.

The shoe related products in China are mainly leather shoes, not including beach shoes, ski boots and so on.

According to the application of Brazil Footwear Association, the Trade Protection Bureau of Brazil Ministry of industry and foreign trade launched an anti-dumping investigation on Chinese footwear products in January 2009.

Recently, the latest news is that the Brazil Foreign Trade Commission has announced an anti-dumping duty of 13.85 US dollars on imports of footwear products from China. The measure is effective from the date of promulgation of the official communiqu of Brazil and is valid for 5 years.

Chinese shoes account for a large proportion of Brazil shoe imports.

The author here has group data, it can be seen that Chinese shoes occupy the market of Brazil local shoes.

In the first 5 months of 2009, 17 million 900 thousand pairs of shoes imported from Brazil amounted to 148 million US dollars, up 4.5% and 21.1% respectively over the same period last year.

About 83% of Brazil's footwear imports come from China.

In the same period, 51 million 100 thousand pairs of shoes exported from Brazil amounted to 560 million US dollars, down 27.3% and 28.6% respectively from the same period last year.

The report said that the United States and Britain are the main markets for footwear exports in Brazil. Affected by the international financial crisis and economic downturn, exports of Brazil footwear to these two markets decreased by 33% and 35.5% in 1-5 months, respectively.

In addition, Argentina, Ecuador and Venezuela and other Brazil have adopted trade protection measures in the main export markets of Latin America, which also affected Brazil's footwear exports to some extent.

It can be seen that the reason why Brazil shoes "bombardment" Chinese shoes is very obvious this time is that the export of Brazil shoes is serious and imports are increasing. Chinese shoes occupy 83% of Brazil shoe imports.

If you want to find vitality for Brazil's local shoes, the most direct and effective way to limit Chinese shoes is the largest share of the owners.

Punish China in the past.

Tofano, a representative of the footwear industry in Brazil and a member of the house of Representatives, said that since the anti-dumping duties were imposed on Chinese footwear imports in September 2009, the footwear industry in Brazil has increased by 15 thousand jobs, and nearly 30 million pairs have been imported from China's footwear industry.

At present, the footwear industry in Brazil has submitted an application to the relevant government departments and asked to continue to levy an anti-dumping duty of $12.47 per pair on China's footwear imports.

In September 2009, the Brazil government decided to carry out anti-dumping investigations on the import of Chinese footwear, and imposed a provisional anti-dumping duty of US $12.47 per pair for a period of 6 months.

If it is investigated, the dumping behavior of China's footwear imports will not be established. The additional tax measures will end in March 8th this year.

But after March 8th, the surcharge was not eliminated, and it continued to exist at a high price of US $13.85.

It has to be deduced that the punishment of Chinese shoes has brought sweetness to Brazil. Since the punishment is effective and the effect is obvious, the extension of this measure will become the first choice for Brazil.

Shoes become trade sensitive products

The shoe related products in China are mainly leather shoes, not including beach shoes, ski boots and so on.

According to the anti-dumping duty calculated on each pair of US $13.85, the cost of exporting Chinese leather shoes to Brazil is about 100 yuan per pair.

Industry analysts pointed out that Brazil is not the main market for China's footwear exports, but its anti-dumping measures also reflect from one side that China's exports of leather shoes are facing multiple trade barriers in the international market and "containment". Footwear products have become one of the "sensitive commodities" that are most vulnerable to anti-dumping.

At present, China's footwear exports are still dominated by the two major markets of the United States and the European Union.

Statistics show that in 2009, under the influence of trade barriers such as anti-dumping, China's footwear exports declined all the way, of which US exports amounted to US $8 billion 810 million, down 5.51% compared to the same period last year, and exports to the EU amounted to US $5 billion 210 million, down 3.01% from the same period last year.

Brazil is a new export market. If China loses Brazil, the export situation is bound to be affected.

The impact is not just that. As Latin America's largest country, other Latin American countries are likely to follow suit once Brazil has filed anti-dumping investigations.

For example, the government of Brazil and Argentina reached an agreement in February 3, 2010, and the two countries will strengthen cooperation in anti-dumping investigations on imported goods and exchange their own information.

At that time, officials from both countries were ready to launch joint anti dumping duties on footwear products, mainly from imported footwear products from China.

Industry analysts said: "for footwear companies, Brazil is a new export market. Although export share is not large, after all, there is already a product export.

In the absence of financial crisis, enterprises need to rely on expanding domestic demand and developing new markets.

If we can see that emerging markets are resistant to giving up as soon as monkeys break corn, sooner or later, we will lose a large market. "

The industry appealed to enterprises to attach importance to emerging markets, attach importance to anti-dumping, and fight against the situation of enterprises themselves.

Anti-dumping history of leather shoes in Brazil:

In December 31, 2008, Brazil decided to start anti-dumping investigations on China's footwear exports to Brazil.

The dumping investigation period was from January 1, 2007 to December 31st.

Customs codes for products involved are 6402 and 6405.

Because foreign countries do not recognize China's market economy status or enterprises operate according to market economy laws, anti-dumping cases mentioned abroad usually choose an alternative country to account for the existence of anti-dumping in Chinese products.

At that time, Brazil chose Italy as an alternative country.

But the shoe making industry in Italy is at a high level, and the average price of exports to Brazil reaches US $31.96 per pair. At that time, the average export price of China's exports to Brazil was US $5.97. The calculated dumping intensity was 435.7%, which means that if the Pakistani side considers that Chinese shoes are harmful to their industry, it will impose a 435.7% anti-dumping duty.

In September 9, 2009, Brazil made a preliminary decision on the case and decided to impose a provisional anti-dumping duty of 12.47 US dollars / double on China's footwear products for a period of 6 months.

In March 4, 2010, the Brazil Foreign Trade Commission decided to impose a US $13.85 anti-dumping duty on imports of footwear from China.

The measure takes effect from the date of promulgation of the official communiqu of Brazil and is valid for 5 years.

The shoe related products in China are mainly leather shoes, not including beach shoes, ski boots and so on.