Wenzhou Gives Warning Of Trade Barriers To Shoes And Leather Products

"In July 10, 2008, the Peru competition and Intellectual Property Protection Commission's dumping and subsidy investigation committee adopted the decision 096-2008/CDS-indecopi to restart the anti-dumping investigation of shoes originating in China's textile fabrics."

This is the warning information issued by the early warning mechanism for the trade barriers of shoes and leather products.

The reporter learned from the city's foreign trade working conference held yesterday that the construction of "trade barrier early warning response mechanism service point" is steadily advancing in the scope of the city's Industry Association (business), and 3 have become the "Zhejiang foreign trade early warning demonstration point".

It is reported that our city will strive to form a "trade barrier early warning response mechanism service point" covering key industries and sensitive products before 2010.

Since China's accession to the WTO in 2001, our foreign trade has maintained a good momentum of development and has become an earlier and more frequent trade barrier.

Its products have encountered dozens of investigations, such as anti-dumping, countervailing, safeguard measures, special safeguard measures and "337" launched by more than 20 countries and regions, including the United States, the European Union and so on.

In the first half of this year, the city involved about $about 40000000.

"Dealing with trade barriers is very timeliness, so it is very important to move forward. It is helpful for the government, industry and enterprises to grasp the dynamics of foreign markets as early as possible, so that they can take precautions early and actively."

Lin Yangqing, director of the Fair Trade Department of the Municipal Bureau of foreign trade and economic cooperation, said: "at present, it is only an early warning demonstration point. By 2010, our city will form an early warning network covering the whole city's key industries, sensitive products and massive economy."

According to the briefing, at present, 3 service points of Wenzhou shoe leather products, Wenzhou glasses products and electrical products have been successfully checked and approved by the provincial foreign trade and Economic Cooperation Department, and have been listed as provincial warning models.

The head of Wenzhou glasses association said that this warning point is like "radar", which can collect information on trade barriers in time and facilitate the government enterprises to control the trend of foreign trade.

It is reported that the "trade barrier warning response mechanism service point" is voluntarily declared to the Municipal Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau by the Municipal Trade Organization in principle, and the Municipal Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau will confirm it according to the materials submitted after the "service point" reported, and will conduct an examination at the end of each year, reward the excellent candidates, and disqualify the qualified people to cancel their "service point" qualification.