A high-profile figure in the Brazilian
footwear
industry has repeated a claim from the end of 2012 that manufacturers
and importers of shoes made in China are using “triangulation” to
by-pass anti-dumping measures that Brazil has had in place since 2010.
Speaking
at the start of the latest Couromoda exhibition in São Paulo, the
president of Brazilian footwear industry association Abicalçados, Milton
Cardoso, said a trade surplus of $5 billion that his member companies
achieved in the recent past had fallen to $1 billion in 2012 because of
the volume of cheap imports still coming into Brazil.
Also at
Couromoda, the country’s minister for development, industry and external
trade, Alessandro Teixeira, confirmed that the government will work
with Abicalçados in 2013 to put anti-dumping measures in place for
footwear imports from other countries, mentioning by name Vietnam and
Indonesia.
Since 2010, companies seeking to bring Chinese-made shoes into Brazil have had to pay a tariff of $13.85 per pair.
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