Industry associations head for China
07/07/2008
Representatives of the principal footwear and leather industry associations in Mexico have travelled to China to formalise new agreements on tariffs on imports of leather footwear from the Asian country.
Tariffs were due to come off from the beginning of this year, but after street protests in the main leather and footwear manufacturing centre of Guanajuato, the Mexican government negotiated a partial extension, which means tariffs will stay in place for a further three years on 88% of footwear types (principally those made with leather), with trade on the other 12% becoming free immediately.
The organisations travelling to China for this exercise include the Footwear Industry Chamber of the State of Guanajuato (CICEG), the Chamber of the Tanning Industry of Guanajuato (Cicur) and directors of the Anpic international leather exhibition.
They believe the new measures will boost the Mexican leather and footwear manufacturing sector by preventing 30 million pairs of shoes a year from coming into the country from China free of duty.
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