Retail sales of clothing and footwear fell by 38.9 percent year-on-year in March across the Eurozone, according to the statistics office Eurostat , due to the widespread retail lockdowns across the region. The drop in total eurozone retail sales amounted to 11.2 percent, including a decline of 23.1 percent in ...
+++ Sales of footwear fell by 12.2% in Sweden during the month of January, probably due to the unseasonably warm weather that has persisted throughout the Nordic countries +++
In presenting his country’s budget, Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Nitharaman reportedly proposed to raise customs duties on certain types of imported footwear to 35 percent from 25 percent to help protect labor-intensive industries. “Cheap and low-quality imports are an impediment to their growth. Special attention has been taken to ...
