Italian Shoemakers Suggest New Punitive Duty against Vietnam
The Italian Shoe Manufacturer's Association (ANCI) is planning to ask the European Union to renew antidumping tariffs on non-athletic leather shoes imported to the bloc from China and Vietnam that will expire October 7.
ANCI is filing paperwork to the European Commission (E.C.) to ask to extend the tariffs, said ANCI Chair Vito Artioli, adding the dumping now is worse than it was in 2006, when the tariffs were first introduced.
Artioli said that leather shoes imported from the two Asian countries have become cheaper and more plentiful over the past two-years.
ANCI, which has 850 member companies, wants to ask for five more years of tariffs, he said.
Shoe manufacturers have time until July 7 to ask the E.C. to extend the tariffs. The E.U. has 12 to 15 months from the October 7 expiration date to conduct an antidumping investigation in order to determine if dumping has taken place. (Vinanet.net, vnbusinessnews.com)
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