European Union begins to impose the punishing tariff on the leather shoes from China and Vietnam since the autumn of 2006, in order to prevent low-currency dumping from causing and assaulting the shoes-making industry of native country of Europe. But does the quota restriction have a actual meaning? The Austrian insider, through analysing European Union implements the market in this year after this measure and reacts, find cheap shoes import has not been reduced , the manufacturer will produce and shift to other countries such as Indonesia , India and Macao , China ,etc., or use other materials to replace the leather, the result like this acts counter to the original intention of European Union, shoes industry criticizes European Union for implementing the punishing tariff, think European Union should introspect deeply .

Some manufacturers think if European Union hope to save native country enterprises of Europe through the protective tariff , this measure should be started as early as 15 years ago. A lot of shoes-making factories of Europe have all already shifted producing to Asia, the shoes-making factory Ara Company boss of Austria claims this measure of European Union is equivalent to " moving the stone and breaking one's own foot ". This company has had a thousand people's factories in Kern state once, and then close in September of 2006, and the staff are fewer than one hundred people at present.

Shoe & Shirt group is the third largest children's shoes manufacturer of Europe following Clark and GEOX, managed by Richter Company in . This company produces 2,400,000 pairs of shoes per year, among them 60% originate from Hungary and subsidiary factory of Slovakia, there are the 835 staff, other products are in the Far East Area production, company's president Alf Netek claims, since European Union imposes the punishing tariff , 15%-22% of cost-push of the factory of the Far East Area, so European Union this measure to bluff totally, like" bark dog bite people ".

Austrian shoes-making trade spokesman Josef Lorenz claims the protective tariff of European Union is " unseasonable " and of no use, this measure of European Union is contrary to will of the shoes-making industry of Austria. Shoes manufacturing industry has 1400 employees in all at present, the number of people 10 years ago was 3 times at present. The shoes products sold in Austria at present, about 40% comes from the Far East Area, China has already replaced Italy and become largest source country that is imported shoes.

(Zhou Meng)

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