He also insists that Asian factories meet the same standards as the EU plants. He recently visited Brussels to justify why anti–dumping duties will not do any good to EU.
He seeks to explain that his company still makes 45 percent of shoes in European countries like Portugal and Slovakia and provides 500 jobs in Denmark itself. And now, it employs around 750 workers in China.
Thinghuus claims that the production will not move back to Europe, and rather move from China and Vietnam to other low-cost countries like Indonesia, India, Thailand and Laos.
Horst Widmann, President, The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI), also concurs and adds that Europe will not gain any jobs, instead, thousands will be lost.
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