EU'S Anti-Dumping Against Chinese Leather Shoes Is Expected To End At The End Of The Month.

Xinhua net Brussels on March 16 (reporter Shang Jun) European Union committee announces 16 days, because did not receive any review application, the anti-dumping measure that is aimed at Chinese and Vietnam leather shoes will expire very quickly.

The European Commission published the announcement in a communique published on the same day, which means that nearly four and a half years of EU anti-dumping on Chinese leather shoes is expected to end at the end of the month.

In order to protect the interests of some southern European shoe enterprises, the European Union formally imported from China from October 2006.

The maximum rate of anti-dumping duty is 16.5%.

Because the case has caused great divergence within the EU, the EU Member States will eventually impose anti-dumping duties for a period of five years from two years to two years.

In October 2008, when the formal anti-dumping measure should have expired, the European Commission decided to review the anti-dumping case of Chinese leather shoes in order to decide whether to extend the anti-dumping measures.

During the review period, the original anti-dumping measures are still applicable.

In December 2009, the EU decided to reconsider the anti-dumping measures on Chinese leather shoes for another 15 months. The plan should expire at the end of this month.

The EU's anti-dumping against Chinese leather shoes, which has been four and a half years long, has met with unanimous opposition from the EU's powerful shoe manufacturers, retailers and consumer groups, which has also damaged factories in China.

The interests of the European consumers have to pay more.

Representing more than 2000 families

The European footwear Federation of interest has counted an account: because the EU will extend anti-dumping duties on leather shoes in China and Vietnam until 2011, European consumers and businesses lose hundreds of millions of euros, with an increase of about 1 billion euros.

But in the announcement, the European Commission also announced that it would closely monitor the export of Chinese and Vietnamese leather shoes to the EU for a year, and if necessary, appropriate measures would be taken promptly.

In response to the EU's anti-dumping measures, the Chinese government appealed to the World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement Mechanism in April 2010 and demanded that the EU's practice be violated international trade rules, and the ruling has not yet been made.