Aokang steps up EU legal battle
By Diao Ying (China Daily)
Updated: 2006-10-25 08:46 Chinese shoe manufacturers
and a national leather industry association yesterday flung their weight behind
Aokang Group's legal action against European Union anti-dumping tariffs.
Aokang, one of China's biggest makers of leather shoes, announced on Monday
that it had hired a lawyer to sue the European Commission, the European Union's
executive body, over the 16.5 per cent duty slapped on Chinese-made shoes.
A sales assistant
watches as a customer browses the shoes on display at an Aokang outlet in
a department store in Nanjing, the capital of East China's Jiangsu
Province. [China Daily] |
"We support Aokang in its action to protect China's footwear industry and
defend the national interest," said China Leather Shoes and Sport Shoes
Commission spokeswoman Wei Yafei.
And other Chinese shoemakers may join Aokang's legal battle against the
European Union.
Wenzhou Leather Industry Association spokeswoman Xie Rongfang said that some
firms "plan to join Aokang in the lawsuit, and some will appeal to legal
protection through the distributor in the European Union."
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