VN calls on EU to reconsider anti-dumping duties on shoes
VGP - Việt Nam suggested member states of the European Union (EU) and the European Commission (EC) reconsider their 15-month extension of punitive taxes on Vietnamese shoes for, said the spokesperson of the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs today in Hà Nội.
The EU Permanent Representatives Committee’s (COREPER) voting on
December 17 paved the way for the Committee (Coreper) to extend anti-dumping tax
on Vietnamese leather-capped shoes.
Vietnamese
footwear makers never dump their products – Illustration photo
According to the Spokesperson, the decision was unfair, unjust, and inappropriate
to the flourishing friendship and cooperation between Việt
The Spokesperson affirmed that Vietnamese footwear enterprises do not
dump their products, have no intension and competence to pursue the policy as
they are medium and small-sized enterprises and do outwork for both European
and foreign partners.
When the global economy was still in financial crisis, the extension of
anti-pumping tax would worsen business performance of Vietnamese enterprises
and lives of Vietnamese workers while causing negative impacts on the European
footwear producers operating in Việt
Once again, Việt Nam suggested that EU’s member states and the EC
reconsider the case in an objective and fair manner and early remove the tax on
Việt Nam’s leather-capped shoes./.
By Khánh Phương
