If EC's proposal is approved, Vietnam's leather shoes will continue suffering the anti-dumping tariff of 10 percent in 15 months from next January 3 as entering EU market, which is lower than 16.5 percent applied on China made shoes.

EU started to impose the leather shoes of Vietnam and China at 10 and 16.5 percent from October 2006. The anti-dumping measure was rejected by European commercial organisations, shoe importers and consumers.

Cany said, EuroCham is willingly to help Vietnam avoid the cases relating to the tariff imposing as for Vietnam's export items. Information transparency is very important. If not, EC's experts themselves will find out information to make report and this will not be good for Vietnamese enterprises.

The Saigon Economic Times - December 16, 2009