The European Association of Fashion Retailers (AEDT) has joined the controversial anti-dumping debate. It has spoken out against the review of the measures imposed in 2006 to decide whether the duties chargeable on leather footwear from China and Vietnam should remain in force.

The association claims that no good has come as a result of the duties. “The duties have not saved any job and after their prolongation production will not go back to Europe either,” it said in a statement. “They just lead to import displacement to other low-cost countries.”

It is calling on the European Commission to complete the review as quickly as possible and to stop imposing duties which it claims “harm the large majority of EU companies and consumers”.

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