How Does The Macao Special Administrative Region Respond To Anti-Dumping Duties?

According to the Macao daily report, since the EU imposed anti-dumping duties on footwear in the mainland and Vietnam, Macao's export to EU footwear has surged, and EU member states have earlier voted to impose anti-dumping duties on leather shoes from Macao.

Since the vote was not final, the SAR government has hired a legal adviser to actively resolve the issue and explain the EU's concerns.

Shoemaker is deploying contingency measures. The EU may levy anti-dumping duties on footwear in Macao, and the shoe factories that are already in trouble are putting on more pounds. Shoe factories are deploying contingency plans.

Since October 7, 2006, the EU has imposed a definite anti-dumping duty on leather shoes from the mainland and Vietnam for a period of 2 years, and the relevant measures will expire in October 7th this year.

Among them, mainland enterprises are required to pay 16.5% anti-dumping duty, except one.

Since the EU imposed anti-dumping duties on shoes from the mainland and Vietnam, Macao's footwear exports to the EU have surged 4 times, which has attracted the attention of the European Commission.

The European Commission believes that Macao's production facilities are limited and it is suspected that footwear will be pferred from other parts of the region to Macao, otherwise it would not be possible to achieve such a huge increase.

Therefore, the European Commission has launched an investigation on its own to circumvent anti-dumping measures.

The Australian government asked the legal adviser to settle the news that since the European Union paid attention to the export of shoe factories in Macao last year, the SAR government has been explaining its concerns to the EU and employing legal advisers.

When the European Union visited Australia, the Economic Bureau also actively explained to the European Union that although the majority of EU member states were in favour of levying anti-dumping duties on leather shoes in Macao, the SAR government would continue to make efforts.

On the other hand, the shoe factory in Macao challenged the rationale for the regulation.

Manufacturers insist that the Macao industry has increased its footwear exports to the EU in view of the EU's Taxation on footwear in the mainland and Vietnam.

But in fact, there are not many shoe exports in Macao, and long-term trade trends show that exports are decreasing.

Manufacturers emphasize that shoes exported from Macao now all come from Macao and conform to the rules of origin of Europe.

Leather shoes wave shoe is investigated all the time, to the European Union may impose anti-dumping duty on Australian shoe, shoe factory representative office waits.

Manufacturers received notice from the chamber of Commerce last month that the EU had the opportunity to levy anti-dumping duties from Macao, worried that the scope of the levy was not only leather shoes, but also all footwear.

Last year, the European Union sent people to Australia to visit shoe factories and produce wave shoes.

As a matter of fact, the EU's investigation method is "meticulous". In April last year, it was sent to Australia. In September, manufacturers were asked to fill in the production process, which was quite disturbing.

It is also necessary to report all the accounts of labor, rent and so on from 2004 to March 2007.

Even require suppliers to declare.

Another two weeks later, the European Union sent people to check factories.

Because the EU investigation is quite frustrating, the two or three factories prefer to give up.

Before the Spring Festival this year before the Spring Festival, the legal adviser hired by the SAR government, accompanied by the staff of the Economic Bureau, visited the factory to show that the consultant was assisting the manufacturers in dealing with the EU issue.

The manufacturer believes that the EU's investigation results have not yet been released, and that the anti-dumping duty has been issued, and the prospect is unclear.

Now we are looking forward to this. Because of the difficulty in operation, the factory is shrinking the local production line.