Reports say EU states want to end anti-dumping
17/09/2008
New agencies in Brussels have reported that the states of the European Union (EU) have voted by 15 to 12 not to continue the trading bloc’s anti-dumping measures against leather footwear imports from Vietnam and China.
This will give the EU’s executive, the European Commission an even more difficult decision when it reviews the measures, which expire in October. It also comes at a time when the commissioner for trade, Peter Mandelson, is preparing to visit China.
The Commission could still decide to extend anti-dumping, which puts a tariff of 16% on leather shoes from China and of 10% on those from Vietnam. It could also decide to continue its formal review beyond the October deadline, which would mean keeping the tariffs in place for the time being.
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