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The EU reaches a trade pact with Mercosur
Twenty years after the start of negotiations, the European Union concluded on June 28 a trade agreement with Mercosur. While indicating that it may take two years for the deal to be formalized, the European Commission noted that the EU is the first major partner to strike a trade pact ...
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HDS/L, the German shoe and leathergoods industry association, and a...
HDS/L, the German shoe and leathergoods industry association, and a German trade union, IG BCE, concluded last month a new collective labor agreement, valid until 2025, for the German footwear industry. In September 2016, IG BCE had terminated all collective agreements as well as wage and salary agreements for the ...
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Weak exports from Bangladesh’s leather industry
Bangladesh's leather industry recorded an 8.7 percent decline in its export revenues to $837 million for the ten months ended on April 30. This was well short of the turnover needed to meet the government's target of $1.1 billion for the fiscal year ending July 31.According to the Bangladesh Tanners' ...
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Brazilian footwear is benefiting from the trade war with China
Things seem to be looking up for Brazilian footwear. From January to April of this year, the industry exported 44.16 million pairs valued at $343.8 million, a 9.4 percent increase in pairs combined with a 0.1 percent decrease in dollars. The chief importer was the U.S., which has been purchasing ...
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President Trump’s special diplomacy shakes up the footwear market
American shoemakers are reassessing their sourcing strategies while U.S. President Donald Trump continues to play hardball with the Chinese government, threatening to raise import duties by a further 25 percent on a number products, including footwear, by Aug. 1. If that happens, duties paid on shoe imports into the U.S. ...
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U.S. removes India and Turkey from GSP trade program
The U.S. government has pulled India and Turkey out of its Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) scheme, which allows thousands of products to be imported into the U.S. without duties. The U.S. is currently reviewing GSP benefits for Indonesia and Thailand.GSP eligibility ended on June 5 for India and on ...
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Deckers Brands has been awarded damages of $450,000 by a...
Deckers Brands has been awarded damages of $450,000 by a Chicago District Court in a three-year-old lawsuit against an Australian company, called Australian Leather, which has been using the Ugg trade name, claiming that it is a generic reference to a certain type of Australian boots. The court found that ...
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Louis Vuitton is accusing Belle International with imitating the design...
Louis Vuitton is accusing Belle International with imitating the design of one of its sneakers
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Italy's powerful shoe industry association, Assocalzaturifici, designated Siro Badon as...
Italy's powerful shoe industry association, Assocalzaturifici, designated Siro Badon as its new president for the next four years at a meeting after last month's World Footwear Congress in Naples. He was the only candidate for the job, replacing Annarita Pilotti of Loriblu from the Marche region. Badon is the president ...
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Kering reached a settlement with the Italian tax authorities totaling...
Kering reached a settlement with the Italian tax authorities totaling €1.25 billion, the highest ever agreed by a corporation in Italy and a little lower than what had been expected. The dispute concerned profits and transfer prices applied between 2011 and 2017 by the group's Swiss subsidiary, Luxury Goods International, ...
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Régis Feuillet has been elected as the new president of...
Régis Feuillet has been elected as the new president of the French Shoe Industry Federation (FFC), replacing Claude-Eric Paquin. He is the managing director of Richard Pontvert, the French company that manufactures and sells the Paraboot line of shoes, using its own recently modernized factory in France. He joined the ...
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Two Spanish labor unions, UGT Fica and CCOO Industria, have...
Two Spanish labor unions, UGT Fica and CCOO Industria, have come to a preliminary consent with Fice, the Spanish shoe industry federation, for a new, three-year collective bargaining agreement to cover Spain's footwear industry. Among other points, the parties have agreed to annual wage raises of 2 percent, payroll disbursement in ...
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At his recent meeting in Paris, Modeurop honored MD Sadiq...
At his recent meeting in Paris, Modeurop honored MD Sadiq of India's Central Leather Research Institute for 25 years of steady collaboration in its color meetings, giving the 54-year-old manager a special cup. As at its previous sessions, Sadiq supplied more than 500 samples of leather in different colors from ...
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Russia is not ready for shoe tags
Russian footwear manufacturers and retailers are asking the federal government to postpone the introduction of compulsory tagging of all shoes on the domestic market with RFID chips. The new regulations, which are slated to come into force on July 1, were partly meant to crack down on sales of fake ...
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The Eighth Commercial Court (Juzgado de lo Mercantil número 8)...
The Eighth Commercial Court (Juzgado de lo Mercantil número 8) of Madrid has ruled that Scalpers' white vintage-style sneakers are not a “disloyal copy” of Adidas' Stan Smith sneakers. As the court explained, there are many similar sneakers on the market, the Stan Smith model does not enjoy a “competitive ...
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The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) has appointed Gary...
The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) has appointed Gary Simmons, director of Intradeco Apparel, as its new chairman. He replaces Thomas Glaser of VF Corp., who is stepping down at the end of his one-year term.
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Veja has announced a lawsuit against Primark for copying the...
Veja has announced a lawsuit against Primark for copying the design of its V 10 Extra White Nautico Pekin sneakers. The trademark of the V 10 shoe consists of the “V” on the upper area of the shoe, a rubber sole and insole, upper and panels in leather, the word ...
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At its recent annual executive summit in Washington, D.C., the...
At its recent annual executive summit in Washington, D.C., the Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America (FDRA) named the winners of its survey-based awards. Wolverine Worldwide was the year's top all-around performer, while Shoe Carnival was the first top performer in e-commerce. Ben Sasse of the U.S. Senate, a Republican ...
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The British Footwear Association (BFA) has appointed a new chief...
The British Footwear Association (BFA) has appointed a new chief executive, Lucy Reece-Raybould, who has been with the Company of Master Jewellers since 2010. She replaces John Saunders, who retired from the post a few weeks ago after serving in the role since November 2015.
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Tom Ford has been appointed as the new chairman of...
Tom Ford has been appointed as the new chairman of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA). He will replace Dian von Fustenberg, who is leaving CFDA after a 13-year tenure at the helm of the organization alongside Steven Kolb, CFDA's chief executive. Ford's appointment will take effect on ...
