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Indonesia and Malaysia have signed an agreement to be allies,...
Indonesia and Malaysia have signed an agreement to be allies, rather than competitors, in their footwear industries. The Malaysian Footwear Manufacturers Association and the Indonesian Footwear Association (Aprisindo) signed the cooperation agreement in the hopes that footwear producers in both countries band together to grow despite competition from companies elsewhere.
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After 27 U.S. Congress members sent a letter supporting the...
After 27 U.S. Congress members sent a letter supporting the easing of tariffs through the Trans-Pacific Partnership (see Shoe Intelligence of May 7), another 18 have weighed in on the other side. They are asking Ron Kirk, U.S. trade representative, to keep the tariffs in place, arguing that they are ...
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A total of 25 large, medium and small companies have...
A total of 25 large, medium and small companies have already joined an information coalition around a Brussels-based lawyer for the repayment of anti-dumping duties that they paid to the European Commission on leather shoes imported from China and Vietnam between 2006 and 2011. The lawyer, Edwin Vermulst, who belongs ...
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The German Leather Federation, VDL, has established the new ECO2L...
The German Leather Federation, VDL, has established the new ECO2L label to designate products that are made using best energy-efficiency low-carbon technologies. The federation calls it as “the world's first calculation and auditing model for determining the energy efficiency and the carbon emissions of a tannery.” The Leather Research Foundation ...
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Twenty-seven members of the U.S. House of Representatives signed a...
Twenty-seven members of the U.S. House of Representatives signed a letter to the country's trade representative, Ron Kirk, asking him to ensure that the footwear industry was treated fairly in the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The TPP creates a new free-trade zone and is lauded as an opportunity for the U.S. to ...
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The Mexican government is said to have reached a new...
The Mexican government is said to have reached a new agreement with the Chinese government about shoe imports from China, which had been subject to heavy duties for a long time until last December. The new deal, which runs from last May 1 to the end of December 2014, reportedly ...
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A federal court in Illinois has ordered a permanent injunction...
A federal court in Illinois has ordered a permanent injunction against 3,007 Chinese-based websites that were selling counterfeit Ugg Australia products. It also awarded Deckers Outdoor Corporation, owner of Uggs and the plaintiff in the lawsuit, $686 million in damages. The judge, acknowledging that it was unlikely that Deckers would ...
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The city council of Chengdu, in the southern Chinese province...
The city council of Chengdu, in the southern Chinese province of Sichuan, has decreed that all the local tanneries must move elsewhere by 2015, along with other polluting industries
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The International Council for Hide Skins and Leather Traders' Association...
The International Council for Hide Skins and Leather Traders' Association chose John Reddington, president of the U.S. Hide, Skin and Leather Association, to be its new president at its 83rd general annual meeting last month. Nick Winters, president of the Syndicat Général Des Cuirs et Peaux in France, and Zhang ...
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The Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America has deemed Nicaragua...
The Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America has deemed Nicaragua a “rising star” that has great potential as a big supplier of footwear to the U.S. The FDRA, in its 2012 Annual Footwear Sourcing Forecast, noted that China was the source of 85.3 percent of all shoe imports in the ...
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Le Monde, the French newspaper, recently reported that thousands of...
Le Monde, the French newspaper, recently reported that thousands of children in the Italian region of Campania have been working to help support their families during the recent economic turmoil. The paper reported that 54,000 children left school between 2005 and 2009, and that they have been working up to ...
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A momentous jury-free trial has started in a U.S. court...
A momentous jury-free trial has started in a U.S. court in New York between Gucci and Guess, the American sportswear company. Footwear News, which is covering the proceedings, reports that Guess' footwear licensee, Mark Fisher, has been challenged to explain the similarity between Guess' Melrose sneaker and one of Gucci's ...
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The mayor of Chengdu, in Sichuan province in southwestern China,...
The mayor of Chengdu, in Sichuan province in southwestern China, has told all the tanneries there that they must close down and leave the city by 2015. The China Leather Industry Association reports that the mayor, Ge Honglin, wants the city to grow thanks to industries that don't pollute. Other ...
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Manolo Blahnik, the iconic footwear designer, said that he didn't...
Manolo Blahnik, the iconic footwear designer, said that he didn't consider his job to be work because it is so much fun. He admitted to the Telegraph, the newspaper in the U.K., that he is working more slowly these days, but he has no plans to retire. He said he ...
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Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) has infected 93,734 head of cattle in...
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) has infected 93,734 head of cattle in Egypt, according to the country's central quarantine service. Just over 9,000 of them have died. The Nile Delta region has been hardest hit by the outbreak. The Food and Agriculture Organization has warned that FMD in Egypt could put the ...
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Slem, which stands for “shoes leather education museum,” is opening...
Slem, which stands for “shoes leather education museum,” is opening up in Waalwijk, Netherlands. The nonprofit initiative, which has been spearheaded by the Dutch design studio of Nicoline van Enter, will offer specialized workshops, courses and seminars for footwear students and professionals to help them develop new skills in footwear ...
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A German court has ruled in favor of K-Swiss in...
A German court has ruled in favor of K-Swiss in its seven-year legal battle with Künzli over the five-stripe design on their shoes. Künzli has been using the design for more than 50 years and shared it with K-Swiss when it helped set up the new company in 1966. However, ...
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Todd Rokita, a Republican representative at the U.S. Congress from...
Todd Rokita, a Republican representative at the U.S. Congress from Indiana, has signed on as the 50th co-sponsor of the Affordable Footwear Act making its way through the U.S. House of Representatives. The act would eliminate $800 million in import duties on some types of footwear, mostly work and children's ...
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While Mexico considers reinstating duties on Chinese footwear imports, which...
While Mexico considers reinstating duties on Chinese footwear imports, which were discontinued in December, figures are in showing the impact of the tariffs. In January 2011, when the duties were in place, Mexico imported 490,000 pairs of shoes from China. In January 2012, after the duties were lifted, it imported ...
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Ceddec, the European federation of national shoe retailers' associations, has...
Ceddec, the European federation of national shoe retailers' associations, has voted to join Eurocommerce as its lobbying organization with the European institutions. The decision follows the recent death of Roeland Smets, who acted as the chief lobbyist in Brussels for both Ceddec and CEC, the European shoe industry federation. In ...
