European Union drops footwear dumping charge
By Jiang Wei (China Daily)
Updated: 2006-09-01 09:42
A European Union (EU) dumping charge against Chinese protective footwear
makers has been dropped as leather shoemakers await the final ruling in their
case.
The EU dumping charge against protective footwear imported from
China was terminated after the European Confederation of the Footwear Industry
formally withdrew its complaint, the European Commission said.
Chinese
businesses had testified to the European Union that China's exports had not
injured the bloc's shoemaking industry, said Li Fayin, a lawyer with
Beijing-based Allbright Law Office, who represented the Chinese firms in the
case.
"This is the first time Chinese enterprises have won an
anti-dumping case in the EU market by non-injury appeal since Chinese lighter
makers were successful in 2003," he said.
The success is the result of
collaboration between the industry, organizations, lawyers and
governments.
The Chinese businesses were proactive; nearly all
large-sized protective footwear makers responded to the charge.
They
presented sufficient facts to the European Commission to support the case that
China's exports had not hurt their European counterparts, Li said.
"The
European Commission did not give a preliminary ruling on protective footwear as
in other dumping charges and its reasons were based on the Chinese enterprises'
appeal."
Major protective footwear makers also persuaded their EU
material suppliers to lobby the European Commission.
Li said the case set
an example for other Chinese enterprises involved in anti-dumping cases.
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