Mexico will keep tariffs
30/09/2008
Representatives of the Mexican leather footwear industry has asked for, and received, reassurances that the federal government there will formalise arrangements to keep in place tariffs on imports of leather shoes from China.
The tariffs were due to end at the start of 2008, but after street protests in León, capital of Mexico’s principal leather and footwear producing state, Guanajuato, the government negotiated an extension with the Chinese authorities. The deadline for making this extension formal is October 15.
At the start of the Sapica leathergoods and footwear exhibition, the most recent edition of which ran from September 25–28, the president of the footwear industry association of Guanajuato (CICEG), José Antonio Abugaber Andonie, asked government representatives to bring the efforts they had put in already to conclusion by making the tariff extension formal.
Former economics minister, Rocío Ruiz Chávez, said she could not take care of the paperwork herself as she is no longer in office, but she offered assurances that her successors would attend to the matter.
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