The anti-dumping measures came in for an initial two-year period in 2006 after European footwear producers claimed that competitor products from the Far East were being exported to Europe for a lower price than they were selling for in their domestic markets, the definition of the practice of dumping. There was opposition at the time from the Asian countries, some EU governments and leading international footwear companies that have moved large proportions of their shoe manufacturing set-ups to China and Vietnam.

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