Brazil'S Anti-Dumping Against Chinese Footwear Under The Crisis

Following the European Union's anti-dumping review of leather shoes in October last year, Brazil recently launched anti-dumping investigations on footwear originating in China.

This will undoubtedly pour cold water on Foshan footwear enterprises in the winter of financial crisis.

However, as the total number of enterprises involved in Foshan is not large and the amount is not high, the head of the Municipal Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau is not likely to take part in the lawsuit.

However, the industry is worried that Brazil is a new export market. If it is lost, the export situation in the second half of this year is bound to be affected.

Most of the enterprises involved in Shunde's South China Sea enterprises are responsible for the anti-dumping investigation of footwear products launched by Brazil. The customs codes of the products involved are 6402 and 6405, and the dumping investigation period is from -12 January 1, 2007 to 31.

Foshan City Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau policy and law department responsible person said, because Foshan for Brazil export shoes enterprises are not large, the amount is not large, enterprises are unlikely to participate in the lawsuit.

According to the person in charge, "in 2007, less than 10 enterprises in Foshan exported to Brazil, involving an amount of US $about 1000000.

The export volume and export volume of footwear exported to Brazil in 2008 declined.

In 2007, the largest export company was exported to US $about 400000, which has shrunk to less than US $100 thousand last year.

The enterprises involved in this case are mainly enterprises in Shunde and South China Sea. Yesterday, the relevant persons in charge of the Municipal Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau have notified the relevant information one by one.

"If there are enterprises to defend their rights, we will definitely support them."

"The foreign trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau will give guidance on procedures and regulations for enterprises responding to complaints," the person in charge said.

Small businesses are unable to respond. No matter whether they were anti-dumping duties two years ago, last year's EU anti-dumping sunset review, or now Brazil launched anti-dumping, the manager of a shoe factory in Nanhai Lishui did not hear about it.

A shoe factory worker in the Ping Chau Industrial Park, South China Sea, said that it did not involve anti-dumping cases at all.

Reporter previously interviewed the Secretary of the footwear industry association of Nanhai District, he was also very helpless: the shoe companies in the South China Sea are generally small and medium-sized enterprises, unlike big enterprises in Dongguan and Huizhou.

This is mostly a small factory of about 100 people, usually making OEM production with foreign orders, then handed over to trade companies for export, and they have no ability to pay attention to the international situation such as anti-dumping.

In fact, the fate of OEM enterprises is also closely related to anti-dumping.

Because a product is sued, the trading company will pass the cost to the manufacturer, which is an important reason for the cost rise.

The industry is worried that losing the emerging market, anti-dumping has not caused enough attention to the enterprise, an important reason is that enterprises can raise the export price to make up for the corresponding losses.

In 2006, when the EU was confronted with anti-dumping, the head of the marketing department of a large shoe company in Nanhai District said, "the price of enterprise exports has been raised accordingly."

"But for a while, since last September, the export of footwear has been hit hard by the financial crisis."

Industry analysts said: "for footwear companies, Brazil is a new export market. Although export share is not large, after all, there is already a product export.

In the absence of financial crisis, enterprises need to rely on expanding domestic demand and developing new markets.

If we can see that emerging markets are resistant to giving up as soon as monkeys break corn, sooner or later, we will lose a large market. "

The industry appealed to enterprises to attach importance to emerging markets, attach importance to anti-dumping, and fight against the situation of enterprises themselves.

Editor in charge: Yang Jing