Indian leather trade calls for bigger non-leather duties to counter Chinese `dumping`
11/06/2001
The Indian leather trade has called upon the government to increase the import duties that apply to non-leather footwear.
The Council for Leather Exports (CLE) said it wants the duties increased to the maximum limits permitted by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) – primarily as an anti-dumping measure against China.
In an export strategy paper recently submitted to the government, the CLE determined that China accounted for 27% of non-leather footwear exports during 1998. In a market with an estimated total world value of $28.15 billion, India’s share was only 0.6%. It was also found that during the period 1994-98, India’s share of the expanding US market for non-leather footwear actually decreased.
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