Shishi Casual Leather Shoes Look Forward To Anti-Dumping Disputes

At the beginning of this year, the permanent mission of China to the World Trade Organization filed a request for consultations under the WTO dispute settlement mechanism on the anti-dumping measures taken by the EU on Chinese leather shoes. Recently, WTO formally set up an expert group to investigate and decide whether the EU anti-dumping measures are against the rules of international trade.

Shishi's casual leather shoes industry believes that the EU should stop the EU's aggressive behavior of levying anti-dumping duties on Chinese and Vietnamese leather shoes, and keep optimistic expectations for China's success.

In October 7, 2006, the EU Commission ended the dumping rate of 16.5% of China's shoes, and imposed a two-year anti-dumping duty. Last December 22nd, the anti-dumping measures were extended for 15 months, causing the extreme indignation of Shishi casual leather shoes industry. In the meantime, Shishi casual leather shoes enterprises have also taken positive measures. Shishi casual leather shoes enterprises have filed countercharges with several other well-known shoe companies in China, and hired "foreign lawyers" for time charges. Because of the refusal of the European Court of justice, Shishi casual leather shoes enterprises paid hundreds of thousands of yuan lawyers fees at the end.

Stone lions have been invited to take part in the Dusseldorf international footwear exhibition, Germany, but in the case of insufficient orders, they have been insulated from the shoe exhibition in recent years. The anti-dumping duties have led to the loss of the EU market, and the original European leisure leather shoes have been spanferred to the markets of Eastern Europe and the Americas. The new international market opened up in the newly opened international market, which has now exceeded the reduction in the export market of the European Union.

According to the authoritative statistics of China Leather Industry Association, the anti-dumping duty has resulted in a 20% reduction in the export of leather shoes from China to Europe and about 40 million pairs of leather shoes exported to the EU, causing about twenty thousand workers to lose their jobs. Shishi is the main production area of China's casual leather shoes manufacturing industry. It is one of the most affected areas in the European Union's anti-dumping duties. The footwear industry in Jinjiang is mainly sports shoes. Because sports shoes are not in the anti-dumping list, the impact is far less serious than that of Shishi.

The Shishi casual leather industry is optimistic about the final result of the Chinese government's WTO accusation. The data show that since 1995, the average plaintiff winning rate of all WTO member countries under the dispute settlement mechanism is about 86%, and the overall success rate of developing countries as plaintiffs is as high as 93%. According to the WTO dispute settlement procedure, there will be a period of about 60 days.

Shishi shochu pointed out that the implementation of anti-dumping measures by the European Union not only undermines the normal trade of leather shoes products in Central Europe, but also damages the interests of consumers in EU countries, especially when the spread of the European debt crisis and the purchasing power of ordinary consumers generally drop, it is wise to terminate the anti-dumping duty in advance.