Dumping still going on, Spain insists
20/11/2009
The president of the Spanish National Footwear Federation (FICE), Rafael Calvo, has given his reaction to the vote in Brussels on November 19 in which a majority of trade representatives of the 27 member states of the European Union voted against a proposed extension of anti-dumping measures against shoe imports from Vietnam and China.
European footwear manufacturers insist that their competitors in the two Asian countries are still receiving unfair assistance to be able to keep their export prices falsely low.
Mr Calvo said that no one in the debate regarded the proposed extension of 15 months as satisfactory. "But it least it would mean recognition that the practice of dumping is still going on and still causing harm to the industry in Europe. What's happening, though, is that the voices with an interest on the other side of the argument are getting louder all the time."
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