Columbia march against imported cheap Asian footwear and leather products2013-07-05

More than 20000 from the footwear and leather industry entrepreneurs, experts and shoe workers in June 6th 6 on Columbia City street parade, large imports and smuggling protest footwear and leather products, mainly imported parade in opposition to extremely low price of Asian products. The protesters insisted that such imports accelerated domestic enterprises have closed down and the unemployment rate increased.
In in in in in in in the new government's economic policy has been to bring a large number of open Columbia Chinese, Vietnamese and other Asian countries of cheap manufactured goods, these low-cost "dumping" products are damaging Columbia domestic same industry. Many industry committee of the country has been trying to persuade the government to take measures without fruit, the personage inside the industry to protest, hoping to attract more attention of the government and the whole society. In in in in in in in in in in "obviously imports cheaper than local similar shoes at least 5 times." Columbia footwear, leather and leather products association president Lewis Gustavo Florence said the import data recent worrying. Number of periods in in in in in in in Chinese imports of shoes from 2008 to 2012 over 4 times. If you compare figures for the first quarter of 2012 to 2013, while imports increased by 60%, from 12300000 to 19800000. 70% of them from China, the number of 5200000 pairs of shoes imported from China, while 26% of the value of the average $1 a pair. In in in in in in in order to avoid the smuggling and the unfair competition of domestic products, last month the government issued a new law is called "mixed tariff". The import of the law applicable to textiles and footwear, import countries must not and Columbia signed a free trade agreement. In in in in in in in law enforcement, import tariffs for 15% of the cost of a product, but the new "hybrid" tariff will import tariffs dropped to 10%, plus $5 per kg of imported products. This law will be implemented by the end of next year. But textiles and footwear enterprises in the implementation of the act requires the government to permanently. In in in in in in in the marchers also mentioned that, from January until the implementation of the new law, the importer is still in use in this window period will be a large number of low-priced shoes from China to the local market. Asian imports also make Columbia the industry worry probably losing skilled workers. These workers have been working for many years in local company, skilled.