Macau added to EU’s anti-dumping measures
29/04/2008
The European Commission has decided to add Macau to the countries against which it will apply anti-dumping measures for leather footwear imports. The measures have been in place against China and Vietnam since October 2006 and will apply until October this year.
The European footwear industry complained last year that Chinese manufacturers were using trans-shipment practices to get round the policy, sending their shoes to be exported to Europe from Macau instead of mainland China.
Macau has a population of 500,000 and, according to the EU, imported 40,000 pairs of shoes from China in 2005. In 2007, the figure was 5.1 million pairs. The European trading block insists that China's use of the Special Administrative Region as a staging post for footwear exports is the only plausible explanation.
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