Vietnam protests proposed EU anti-dumping duties on shoes
Afp, Hanoi
Vietnam rejected again Friday a European Commission (EC) proposal to levy 10 percent anti-dumping duties on imports of Vietnamese shoes, reducing current emergency levies. Pressure is building on EU countries to settle their differences on what action to take before the temporary anti-dumping duties on imports of Chinese and Vietnamese shoes expire in October. Seeking to break the deadlock, the commission renewed a proposal -- already rejected in July by member states -- to impose a duty of 16.5 percent on Chinese leather shoes and a duty of 10 percent on Vietnamese leather shoes. "Enterprises with plants in Vietnam did not dump leather-capped shoes on the EU market," Vietnamese foreign ministry spokesman Le Dung said in a statement. "The EC's proposal ... runs counter to the policy of trade liberalisation which was initiated and strongly supported by the EC.
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