Mexican footwear bodies prepare for ministry showdown
08/03/2012
President of the Guanajuato footwear industry association (CICEG), Armando Martín Dueñas, has told local media that he and his counterparts in other areas of Mexico will press the minister, Bruno Ferrari, for decisions on what steps the government will take to help defend the domestic footwear production sector. A tariff agreement on imports from China of products including footwear came to an end on December 12 last year.
"We are asking for concrete, specific measures," Mr Martín Dueñas said. "We have beefed up and extended the reports we have been making since December 12 and have shown that there is a substantial threat to our companies from footwear imports into Mexico from China. We want the government to make official and to make public the measures it will put in place."
He warned that if the situation that has been in place since the end of the tariff agreement continues, the Guanajuato city of León alone could lose 35,000 jobs in the footwear sector in the next five months.
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