All Legal & Institutional articles – Page 30
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Will anti-dumping duties be restored in Europe?
The European Parliament, the Council and the Commission have reached a compromise agreement on the methodology that should be used for the calculation of dumping margins and other market distortions that is expected to be more transparent than the previous one. Declining to consider China as a market economy, despite ...
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Cotance (Confederation of National Associations of Tanners and Dressers of...
Cotance (Confederation of National Associations of Tanners and Dressers of the European Community) is urging the European Commission to implement specific regulations on leather authenticity labelling within the EU market. The topic of “leather authenticity” was part of the agenda of Cotance's Autumn Council on Oct. 6. According to the ...
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Spanish shoe production is stable, but the average value goes up
Figures from the Spanish shoe industry association, Fice, show that the country's shoe production remained largely stable in 2016 as compared to 2015. It dropped only slightly by 0.7 percent to a total volume of 102 million pairs.In terms of value, Spain's shoe production increased by 2.3 percent to a ...
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Brussels has continued its crackdown on tax avoidance by big...
Brussels has continued its crackdown on tax avoidance by big multinationals by ordering Amazon to repay €250 million in illegal state aid to Luxembourg. The penalty issued earlier this month, follows on from the record €13 billion demanded from Apple for Irish back-taxes last year, in a case that is ...
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Vietnam and Bangladesh perform better than India
India's exports of footwear, leather and leathergoods declined by 3.23 percent in the last financial year, falling for the second consecutive year. They amounted to $5.66 billion for the year from April 2016 to March 2017 as compared to $5.85 billion in the previous year. The drop follows a fall ...
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Fly London is launching a line of boots designed in...
Fly London is launching a line of boots designed in partnership with a Spanish artist, Cristina Rodrigues
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Starting in Poland, partners in a program called “Shoes Made...
Starting in Poland, partners in a program called “Shoes Made in EU: The European Shoemaker,” are launching an online course promoted by the European Confederation of the Footwear Industry (CEC) and funded by the European Commission. Shoemakers and young students are encouraged to register for free to access the material ...
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Diadora has started a collaboration with Sympatex for a line...
Diadora has started a collaboration with Sympatex for a line of waterproof work boots
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Gianvito Rossi is launching its first men's collection and is...
Gianvito Rossi is launching its first men's collection and is opening two new men's boutiques to house the new line. The shoes of the new men's 2017 collection are said to be made from specifically naturally-tanned leathers. The new men's boutiques of the Italian luxury shoe designer will open at ...
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Fabletics is launching its first shoe collection. The retailer will...
Fabletics is launching its first shoe collection. The retailer will offer 11 styles of athletic and lifestyle shoes including training shoes, booties, slip ons, high tops and lifestyle sneakers. The footwear capsule collection will be exclusively available to members on Fabletics' e-commerce site in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Germany, France, ...
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Ukraine has obtained new trade preferences from the European Union...
Ukraine has obtained new trade preferences from the European Union that increase the quantity of products the country can export to the EU free of duties, including footwear. The trade measure, which came into force on Oct. 1, will offer several Ukrainian agricultural and industrial goods better access to the ...
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Hewlett Packard has stepped into the footwear market with FitStation,...
Hewlett Packard has stepped into the footwear market with FitStation, a system for 3D foot-scanning, dynamic gait analysis and personalized shoe production. Powered by HP hardware and software, FitStation captures 500 measurements per second to create a one-of-a-kind digital profile of each foot. Hewlett Packard has worked with a group ...
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J.M. Weston is launching Ultra Weston, its most luxurious line....
J.M. Weston is launching Ultra Weston, its most luxurious line. The Ultra Weston collection, which the brand describes as a “celebration of the quintessence of shoemaking savoir-faire,” includes four models featuring special details such as petit point stitching in pearl grey, hand-painted sole arches and hand-pegging with W decoration.
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Abicalçados, the Brazilian footwear industry association, has conducted an in-depth...
Abicalçados, the Brazilian footwear industry association, has conducted an in-depth study on the footwear market in Russia, in collaboration with Apex, Brazil's export promotions agency. Abicalçados values the Russian footwear market at $10 billion in 2016, and 75 percent of the shoes sold in the country are imported from abroad. ...
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Bangladesh has its first shoe show and big ambitions
The shoe and leathergoods industry of Bangladesh is organizing the country's first footwear trade show in November while the Bangladeshi government is considering the launch of a major program to promote the growth of the sector, which has been scoring encouraging advances on the export front in recent years.Bangladesh's footwear ...
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Joesley Batista, the wealthy Brazilian tycoon who built a global...
Joesley Batista, the wealthy Brazilian tycoon who built a global meat and leather empire around JBS, has been put in jail in Brasilia on charges of graft and other serious crimes. A Brazilian Supreme Court judge suspended the immunity that had been granted to the businessman in a plea bargain ...
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Dr. Martens is offering a full refund or a replacement...
Dr. Martens is offering a full refund or a replacement for a certain number of products from its Vegan range, made at a factory in Vietnam, that were sold until recently in North America as well as in some European countries, China, Australia and New Zealand. The products in question ...
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German retailers are embracing omni-channel
Pushed by the competition from pure players in the online space like Amazon and Zalando and by the new digital services offered by the two biggest cooperatives of independent shoes retailers, ANWR and Sabu, multi-channel retailers have gained a share of 25 percent in the German online market for shoes, ...
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Sports shoes lift German shoe exports
The latest federal trade statistics show a huge 25.1 percent increase in Germany's shoe exports to €2.79 billion for the first five months of this year as compared to the same period a year ago, when they went up by 11 percent. However, industry officials indicated that the boom in ...
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Portuguese exports go up in value and volume
Shoe exports from Portugal rose by 6.4 percent in value and 7.0 percent in volume during the first half of 2017, going up to a level of 43 million pairs worth €960 million for the period. They are now covering 152 countries around the world.If the positive trend is confirmed ...
