EU imposition anti-dumping duty on Chinese shoes has brought strong dissatisfaction among domestic shoe-making enterprises.
Some have attempted to appeal the case to the European Court in defending their own rights and interests through legal means.
An official in charge of fair trade from the Ministry of Commerce said on October 10 that Chinese government expressed respect and support to their decision and action.
He said that the government had taken note of some domestic enterprises' intention to appeal the case to the European First Trial Court.
He said, in EU's investigation into the case and the final ruling, here were many violations against EU anti-dumping rules.
For example, different tax treatments, enterprise's market economy treatment, anti-dumping duty calculation, the time limit for information disclosure, the treatment of non-sampling enterprises, all of those harmed the legitimate rights and interests of the involved enterprises.
The official pointed out that under the provisions of the EU anti-dumping rules, Chinese enterprises involved in the case could appeal file within two months to the EU Court.
This is an effective way for enterprises to protect their legitimate interests and rights. Chinese government expressed respect and support to domestic enterprises.
Meanwhile, it also reflects the maturity and sense of Chinese enterprises to safeguard their rights.
There have been several successful events for Chinese enterprises to appeal against anti-dumpling cases to abroad courts, and they have effectively safeguarded the interests of Chinese enterprises.
On October 5, 2006, EU made the final ruling of anti-dumping on Chinese shoes. Chinese enterprises were charged 16.5 percent anti-dumpling duty with effect from October 7, for a period of 2 years, except one who had obtained the market economy treatment to be levied with 9.7 percent duty.
Fibre2fashion, News Desk - China
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