By Prof. Claudio Dordi, MUTRAP III

I. Introduction

Since March 2006, the EC (then EU) applied an antidumping measure on the footwear with uppers of leathers (FUL) imported from Vietnam; the measure (10% of duty) expired the last 31 March, as no producers located in the EU presented any request to the EU Commission for its continuation. This article, based on a research focused on the data sourced from EUROSTAT, has two main objectives: first, it will try to provide some new information about the reasons behind the EU decision in 2005 to start an investigation on both Chinese and Vietnamese FUL; second, through the analysis of the exports data of footwear with upper of leather to the EU after March 2011 it will provide a first assessment about the impact of the expiry of the antidumping duties.

Source: MUTRAP III