From "100 Enterprises" Resisting Together To "Single Riding" Responding To The Lawsuit, The Anti-Dumping Practice Of China'S Shoe Enterprises Is Advancing In Exploration

As a representative of China's shoe-making enterprises, Guo Weiwen, as the Deputy Secretary General of the EU's anti-dumping alliance against China's shoes, participated in the EU's solicitation of opinions on Revising the green paper on trade remedy tools in early 2007. On the 32 question list, she carefully wrote down her views on the EU's trade remedy tool. The European Union has taken the initiative to consult Chinese shoe-making enterprises on the amendment of trade remedy measures. This move with the implication of throwing out olive branches is not just from the air. The incident can be traced back to 2005, when the European Union launched an anti-dumping investigation on China's export of labor protection shoes and leather shoes, including 52.55 million US dollars in labor protection shoes and 730 million US dollars in leather shoes. The case involved more than 1200 shoe-making enterprises and more than 4 million workers in China. Therefore, it is known as the largest anti-dumping case initiated by EU against China in the past 10 years. At the beginning of the investigation, about 150 enterprises in China responded to the lawsuit. However, after more than half a year's investigation, the EU has refused to give all 13 Chinese shoe enterprises the status of market economy. As soon as the move was made, seven Guangdong leather shoe manufacturers, including Wanbang, which were sampled by the European Commission, and Panyu Chuangxin Shoes Co., Ltd., which had not been sampled but filled in the questionnaire, held a meeting in Guangzhou to discuss the response measures, and unanimously agreed to launch the establishment of the EU anti-dumping response alliance against Chinese footwear products to conduct a collective defense. Through the efforts of all parties, China's defense shoe enterprises won the first victory - the EU cancelled the anti-dumping investigation on labor protection shoes. Since then, the EU's anti-dumping response alliance against China's footwear products, a group completely organized by enterprises, has continued to engage in a positive confrontation with the EU's anti-dumping measures in order to safeguard the common interests of Chinese shoe enterprises. In October 2006, the European Union officially decided to impose 16.5% anti-dumping duty on Chinese leather shoes enterprises. In this regard, nine enterprises in China have responded to the case and strive for zero tax rate. Liang Yanping, a staff member of Aokang Group's administrative management center, told reporters that although the proportion of leather shoes exported by the company to EU is not large, from the perspective of the development of the whole market, Europe is still an ideal export market. "Now that the European footwear industry has entered a" sunset ", the EU market will become a must for non EU enterprises sooner or later," he said. Chinese enterprises should take precautions and pave the way ahead of time. If we don't respond actively this time, we may face higher tax rates and longer tax periods in the future. " Now, the confrontation between these nine enterprises and the European Union is in a seesaw war. After a full year of waiting, not long ago, enterprises received the first round of written replies from the EU Council of ministers and other interested parties transmitted by the court of first instance. It is understood that in recent years, in terms of foreign anti-dumping strategies, our country often adopts collective defense to strive for market economy status, and then individual enterprises appeal for zero tax rate, in which industry associations play the role of organizing and organizing. However, in the process of Chinese shoe enterprises' anti-dumping measures against EU, Wanbang and other large-scale enterprises play the role of industry associations to a certain extent. Sheng Jianming, a professor at the Law School of the University of international business and economic cooperation, affirmed this kind of plea: "the performance of China's shoe enterprises in the anti-dumping investigation against the EU has a positive significance. In the face of anti-dumping investigation initiated by foreign countries, Chinese enterprises should dare to deal with it and make rational use of the rules to protect their own interests. " Moreover, he believes that this cooperation defense can be said to be an opportunity for the transformation to a new bottom-up industry association system: "this cooperation mechanism led by leading enterprises can make enterprises better share information." When Dong Shurong, the director of the European Union, can share the best information about the legal affairs of the European Union, it is also obvious that the joint efforts of the three EU lawyers can share the best benefits of the legal affairs of Beijing However, it can be seen from the changes in the number of responding to lawsuits that many enterprises that participated in the group defense did not join the appeal group. Guo Weiwen said: "in addition to the consideration of the cost of responding to the lawsuit, in the previous defense, due to too many political factors involved in the European Union, many enterprises have lost their trust in it." In addition, she also told reporters that in recent years, the adjustment of national macro policies for processing trade and the implementation of labor law have also affected the attitude of enterprises to deal with foreign anti-dumping to a certain extent. At present, many domestic enterprises are considering their future development direction and trying to transfer their production bases to other countries.