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Brazil Anti-Dumping Investigation On Chinese Shoes, Fujian Shoe Enterprises Frustrated

2009/1/14 0:00:00 103

Core tip: "small.

shoes

Fujian has been tossing around for several years ". After the new year's day, I saw the information bulletin of Fujian shoe and hat import and Export Chamber of Commerce, and a small shoe salesman in Fuzhou was shocked.

Brazil

Decided to start our shoe imports.

Anti-dumping

The survey covered almost everything.

Export shoes

Class.

The Fair Trade Bureau of the Ministry of foreign trade and economic cooperation said that the total amount involved was 108 million 320 thousand US dollars, of which Fujian had 54 million 610 thousand US dollars, involving more than 1 million US dollars, and 12 enterprises in 24 enterprises. Fujian accounted for about half of all the impact indicators, and hundreds of Fujian enterprises were involved in it.

The impact is not just those, as the Latin American market is the largest country once.

Brazil

It is very likely that other Latin American countries will follow suit to initiate anti-dumping investigations.

The bad news is that the EU has imposed a 16.5% anti-dumping duty on leather shoes, but the EU has started the "sunset review". The implementation of the high tax rate may be extended.

Brazil

Fitting

Antidumping duty

Up to 435.7%

In December 31, 2008, the Brazil Development Ministry of industry and foreign trade protection bureau issued a notice and decided to start anti-dumping investigations on China's footwear imports from January 1, 2007 to December 31, 2007.

It is learnt that because foreign countries do not recognize China's market economy status or enterprises operate according to the law of market economy, anti-dumping cases mentioned by foreign countries usually choose an alternative country to calculate whether there is anti-dumping in Chinese products.

Unlike the EU's choice of Brazil as an alternative country in 2006, Brazil chose Italy as an alternative country.

But the shoe making industry in Italy is at a high level. The average price of exports to Brazil is 31.96 US dollars per pair, while the average price of China's exports to Brazil is US $5.97. The calculated dumping intensity is 435.7%, which means that if the Pakistani side considers that Chinese shoes are harmful to their industries, it will impose 435.7% anti-dumping duties.

Zhang, deputy general manager of a shoemaking enterprise in Jinjiang, said that such a tax rate would be "death sentence" for shoe makers, and Chinese shoes, including Fujian, could not be exported to Brazil at the price of Italy.

Fujian shoe enterprises

Exports are more difficult

The head of the law and regulation department of the China Textile Industry Association told reporters that Fujian's exports to Brazil accounted for 50.3% of the country's total, followed by Guangdong and Zhejiang, accounting for 20% and 15.7% respectively.

There are 148 export enterprises in Fujian, 224 in Guangdong and 70 in Zhejiang.

According to the provisions of the Ministry of Commerce on anti-dumping duties on export products, enterprises producing and exporting products involved in the investigation period are all involved in the case.

What worries businesses and governments is that footwear is Fujian's dominant export commodity.

Affected by the financial crisis, the growth rate of footwear exports to Europe and the United States has dropped from two digits to a single digit. Now the ratio has begun to decline, but exports to emerging markets such as Brazil have not gone up. Fujian shoes exports to Brazil increased by more than 50% last year. Anti-dumping investigations may lead to the loss of Brazil, an emerging market in our province.

Shoemaking

Respondent

In response to the anti-dumping investigation of footwear in Brazil, a total of more than 30 people from the State Commerce Department and chamber of Commerce and enterprises gathered in the VIP room on the four floor of Fuzhou World Plaza yesterday afternoon. The purpose of their trip is to convene Brazil footwear antidumping coordination suit.

Lawyers attending the meeting yesterday said that the 4 Chinese companies responding to the PVC case in 2007 received a 10% differential tax rate, while others implemented a 20% tax rate, which made shoe enterprises see the hope of responding to the lawsuit in Brazil.

If a company respones successfully, Brazil may carry out a differential tax rate or unify a lower tax rate on Chinese shoes.

Yesterday's Action Coordination Committee said that Fujian will launch the "four body linkage" (by the Ministry of Commerce, local commercial authorities, industry intermediaries and enterprises involved in the work plan), inform each other information, mobilize and guide enterprises involved in active response.

The head of the law and regulation department of the China Textile Industry Association said that after the outbreak of the global financial crisis, trade protectionism was on the rise and trade frictions began to increase due to the reduction of consumer demand. These frictions came not only from countries such as Europe and the United States, but also because of the difficulty of selling domestic products.

Editor: vivi