Recently, the Chinese shoes in the EU market prospects is very delicate. On
one hand, the Chinese shoes EU anti-dumping investigations are
escalating; The other hand, China shoes because of their failure to meet
EU standards and testing detained or return repeated news came out. If
the anti-dumping is the price, then the failure is directly aimed at
testing the quality of products and safety, China is able to enter the
shoes of the EU market, "the problems of life and death.
Headquarters
in Brussels, the European Union is a shoe on behalf of the EU footwear
manufacturers interests of the organization, its members from the 18 EU
member states and five countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The
federation's executive director grader Smeets to Xinhua, In addition to
a standard way of footwear products tagging the Directive 94/11/CE, The
EU does not have a direct view of footwear products of technical
standards and regulations But many EU product safety standards and
regulations apply equally to footwear products.
Smeets to reporters a list of footwear products applicable laws of the EU list, as many as are dozens of names. In
addition to general product safety requirements, the Act relates to a
lot of environmental, human health, animal welfare and sustainable
development issues and the use of chemicals to make a strictly limited. If
the EU "ban on azo dye", "Blue dye ban", "on chemicals registration,
evaluation, Licensing method "(REACH Directive), the shoe materials
dyes, formaldehyde, nickel, Cadmium is so stringent requirements.
Last
month,Italian “Venomous shoes storm”, Italy is under EU 94/27/CE and
other relevant directive 02/61/CE, China suspects detected nickel
leather shoes, dyes, cadmium and pentachlorophenol, and other substances
exceeding 4. Germany and the number of customers returned to China rubber shoes, were detected exceeding formaldehyde content.
One
familiar with the EU footwear trade of the people, told reporters that
at present there is no international footwear unified technical
standards. EU
to comply with the Consumer Products Safety, health and environmental
importance EU adopted corresponding considerable strengthening of
product safety standards and environmental protection regulations and
requirements of the Directive. Hence, the EU in general technical standards than Chinese national standards high.
He
emphasized that the EU has been able to develop high technical
standards, European shoe is more technologically advanced enterprises,
the ability to meet these standards and requirements. Moreover,
as footwear is still labor-intensive industries, developing high
technical standards, footwear trade can enhance the "technical barriers"
protection of the labor cost advantage is not an EU footwear business
interests. In
recent years, with China, Vietnam and other countries the production of
low-priced shoes, the impact on the EU market is becoming more and more
evident The importance of technical barriers also increasingly obvious.
However, the European footwear manufacturers and did not feel satisfied.For
a long time, the EU footwear enterprises in order to meet these new
product technology standards and requirements, have invested technology,
thus increasing costs. They
demanded that the EU countries have continuously strengthened on
imported shoes detection, in order to avoid "unfair competition."
Smeets
said, as import shoes rapid increase in the number of EU member states,
unable to cope with the Customs, Detection members of the body will not
have sufficient capacity to adequately supervised. The
European Footwear Association and its affiliated associations in many
development agencies have technical testing capabilities, Therefore,
they will enhance the sampling of imported shoes, shoe imports to ensure
compliance with EU safety, health and environmental technical
standards, "thereby protecting the interests of European consumers."
Smeets said that the European Union right shoe imports shoes will be sampling in different member countries for irregular. But
he has also repeatedly stressed that the spot checks are not
specifically aimed at the Chinese shoes, but mainly against the EU big
footwear importer.Of
course, China is the EU's largest footwear imports, the EU imports
account for more than one-quarter of the total, for the detection of
Chinese shoes would be "a matter of course."
Analysts
here pointed out that the EU's technical barriers and the improvement
of Chinese shoes anti-dumping investigation escalated, clearly shown
that the EU footwear manufacturers to import shoes from China and
worried about the impact of the rebound. Faced
with this situation, Chinese shoe-making enterprises, to respond
aggressively to protect their legitimate rights and interests, but also
find their own reasons, to enhance the quality, style and brand
awareness. Only in this way can China by the "shoe-making power" into the "shoe-making power."