EU Governments Reject Vietnam Shoe Duty

European Union governments have rejected a proposal for anti-dumping duties on shoes from China and Vietnam, which was made by the European Commission on July 26.

 

“The anti-dumping advisory committee has not supported two different approaches put forward by the commission to address the issue of injury resulting from the dumping of certain Chinese and Vietnamese leather shoes,” European Commission spokesman Peter Power told a news briefing on August 4.

 

The commission proposed anti-dumping duties of 10 and 16.5 per cent for leather footwear from Vietnam and China respectively after a previous plan on the application of quotas for shoes imported from Vietnam and China was thrown out by EU states. Under the plan, the EU would impose normal tax rate on 140 million pairs of shoes imported each year from China, and 95 million pairs imported from Vietnam, and higher tax rate for the volume of shoes exceeding the quotas.  

In April, the EU started to apply a temporary anti-dumping tax rate for leather shoes imported from Vietnam and China. In September, the tax rate will increase to 16.8 per cent for shoes imported from Vietnam and 19.4 per cent for shoes imported from China.