EU to renew anti-dumping duty on my shoes

China is strongly dissatisfied and will appeal to the WTO, and some EU footwear companies and retailers have objected to a 15-month anti-dumping tax on leather shoes from China and Vietnam, which were opposed by EU industry officials, according to the December 22 Xinhua news agency.　　On that day, the environment Minister of EU Member States adopted the decision with a simple majority without discussion. To protect the interests of some southern European footwear companies, the EU has officially levied anti-dumping duties on leather shoes from China since October 7, 2006, with a tax rate of up to 16.5%. As the case has caused a lot of disagreement within the European Union, EU Member States will end up imposing anti-dumping duties from the usual 5-year period to 2 years. When this formal anti-dumping measure should have expired, the European Commission in October 2008, despite the objections of most of the Member States, decided to review the expiry of China's shoes anti-dumping case to decide whether to extend the anti-dumping measures.　　During the review, the original anti-dumping measures are still applicable.　　The vote was also the result of a compromise within the EU, which had not been extended as usual for 5 years, but only for 15 months. The EU decision has been opposed by some shoe-making companies and retailers.　　The European Footwear Alliance, which stands for the interests of more than 2000 European footwear companies, has even made a single account: European consumers and businesses will lose hundreds of millions of euros if the EU extends anti-dumping measures against Chinese and Vietnamese shoes to 2011.　　The European Footwear Alliance points out that this approach also fails to protect the lagging southern European shoe companies, which will not soar in Europe as the market space is quickly filled by footwear from other countries. BEIJING, December 22 (Xinhua) The EU Council of Ministers has continued to levy 15-month anti-dumping duties on leather shoes in China and Vietnam through the European Commission's recommendations on 22nd. China is strongly dissatisfied with the Chinese government's opposition to EU's anti-dumping measures to extend the case in any form and will appeal to the WTO dispute settlement mechanism and take appropriate measures to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the Chinese industry, the Ministry of Commerce spokesman Yao Jian said in a speech.