ANCI expresses satisfaction over footwear anti-dumping duties
27 Mar '06
3 min read
Soldini, ANCI (Associazione Nazionale Calzaturifici Italiani) chairman made comment that “we've achieved an initial victory, but duties must be harsher.”
Few were willing to bet on the success of the European footwear manufacturers against the Asian colossus, not least because the European political context tends to favour a few, powerful importers. Yet today the result is indeed historic: the EU Antidumping Committee in Brussels has recommended that in the meeting on 22 March the Commission adopts duty measures against China. This is a formal step.
Therefore, the Member States have for the first time agreed that evidence exists of Chinese and Vietnamese footwear dumping and procedures are started to safeguard European production, which is forced to compete within an asymmetric competitive scenario.
“I am not completely satisfied with this result,” says Rossano Soldini, the chairman of ANCI, the national association of Italian footwear manufacturers. “However, I am pleased about the fact that the Antidumping Committee's decision is a first step towards adopting measures to redress the balance of competition and because it proves the Commission recognises that there is a problem about imports from China.
Until only a few weeks ago, it had always denied there was such a problem. This is important, because it acknowledges that our reasoning was not prompted by a desire for protectionism, but to establish rules that would apply to everyone.”
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