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欧盟下月决定是否继续反倾销中国鞋

发布者：亚洲鞋业协会　发布时间：2006-08-31　阅读数：

英国《金融时报》乔治•帕克(George Parker)布鲁塞尔报道

2006年8月29日星期二

欧洲贸易保护主义阵营和自由市场阵营之间的紧张气氛，预计将于下月升至新的水平，届时它们将就是否对廉价的中国和越南鞋类产品继续征收反倾销税展开激烈争论。

欧盟(EU)贸易专员彼得•曼德尔森(Peter Mandelson)已做出如下结论，在解决各国争议上已不可能再多做什么，他将旁观各国政府如何解决彼此分歧。

曼德尔森明日将提议，欧盟委员会(European Commission)应坚持对上述两国皮鞋征收反倾销税的计划，即便该计划已遭到了大多数欧盟成员国的反对。

除非多数欧盟成员国在10月6日之前支持曼德尔森的提议，否则于今年4月引入的初步反倾销税将宣告终止，廉价鞋将涌入欧盟。

曼德尔森手下官员表示，上述提议反映了曼德尔森在两个阵营之间搭桥的最大努力，同时也反映了对中越两国涉嫌倾销的技术分析。

曼德尔森坚持自己8月3日提案的决定，把（争取支持的）任务放在意大利、法国和西班牙等持保护主义态度的国家身上，靠它们去争取更多国家转而赞同其保护主义立场，从而获得欧盟25个成员国中多数国家的支持。

上次有14个国家非正式地反对曼德尔森的计划，为首的是英国、丹麦、德国和瑞典等自由市场国家。

该计划将对来自越南和中国的皮鞋，分别征收10%和16.5%的惩罚性关税。

“这要取决于那些热心我们提案的人如何聚集力量。”曼德尔森的一位发言人表示，“很明显，投票结果将会非常接近。”

对于曼德尔森而言，该提案不能赢得多数成员国的支持，并非全然是一场灾难。他已对欧盟传统的反倾销政策的作用表示怀疑。他指出，许多欧洲制造商在中国和越南制造鞋类产品，并受到了此类反倾销税的冲击。

一些几乎没有制鞋业的北欧国家也辩称，零售商和消费者才是此类政策的输家。

(translator: Ding Xiaoting)

European Union next month decide whether to continue anti-dumping China shoes

Britain, Financial Times, by George Parker in Brussels

Tension between Europe trade protectionism and free market camps is expected to reach a new level next month. At the appointed time, they will have a fierce argument on whether to continue imposing anti-dumping duties on cheap Chinese and Vietnamese shoes.

”I can’t do anything more in resolving the dispute, I will stand aside and see governments how to resolve their differences”, European Union trade commissioner, Peter Mandelson concluded.

Peter Mandelson tomorrow will propose that European Union stick to a plan to impose anti-dumping duties on Chinese and Vietnamese leather shoes though the plan has encountered opposition from a majority of EU member states.

Only when most of EU members support Mandelson’s proposal, otherwise the anti-dumping duties, which introduced in April, will end. And then cheap shoes will flow into EU.

Mr Mandelson’s officials express the proposal reflects the great effort Mandelson have made between the two camps, while reflecting the technical analysis of suspected dumping of China and Vietnam.

Mr Mandelson persists in the decisions, which he proposed on August 3, putting the duty of striving for support on Italy, France, Spain and other countries that take a protectionist attitude, relying on them to win more countries to approve their protectionist standpoint, thereby obtaining a majority support of the EU s 25 member states.

Last time there were 14 countries, headed by England, Denmark, German, Sweden and so on free market countries, informally opposed Mandelson’s plan.

The plan will impose 10 percent and 16.5 percent punitive duties on Chinese and Vietnamese leather shoes respectively.

“This depends on people who keen on our proposal how to gather force, and obviously the result of the poll will be very close to, ” one of Mandelson’s spokesmen said.

For Mandelson, the proposal cannot win the support of the majority of members are not entirely a disaster. He is doubtful of the role of European Union’s traditional anti-dumping policies. He has pointed out that many European manufacturers who make shoes in China and Vietnam has suffered from such anti-dumping duties.

Some north European countries where hardly have shoe industry argued that retailers and consumers are the losers from such policies.