Footwear Association Importers Retailchains (FAIR) announced that the EU Trade Commissioner decides to introduce anti-dumping duties regardless of the negative advice of the Member States.
Commissioner Mandelson has received the power to impose anti-dumping measures on certain footwear from China and Vietnam before April 7.
By pushing through the introduction of anti-dumping measures regardless of the fact that 22 Member States are against the current proposal, or at least consider that an improvement is required, he ignores the actual advice of the Member States and harms the interests of the EU.
Indeed, because of these measures, EU footwear companies active in design, import, logistics, and retail sales of shoes will have to pay approximately EUR 150 million in anti-dumping duties during the next six months.
This is because for this period, purchases have already been made and the re-sales prices of these purchases are already confirmed.
At the same time, the EU producers that are expected to gain from anti-dumping measures will not obtain a comparable benefit. Over the same period, their benefit will be EUR 4 million. According to Paul Verrips, president of FAIR, “the measures are therefore entirely disproportionate”.
The fact that these measures will be provisional and not definitive does not change this situation. In 95 percent of all anti-dumping cases the provisional duties are actually levied.
Footwear Association of Importers and Retailchains (FAIR) is the organization in the footwear sector who looks after the interests of importers and importing retailers and branch offices, who is the link between the local and EU-governments and the trade and industry, who provides actual data and information to its members, who participates, who is prepared for quick action and who is pro-active.
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