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A trade row waged with heart and sole

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October 2006

Divisions over anti-dumping duties on Asian footwear in Europe have set shoemakers against non-shoemakers and trade advocates against protectionists. The results are messy

EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson recently expressed ambition to develop a clear strategy for Europe's fast-developing economic relationship with China. Unfortunately, the reality is that the substance of the relationship can be messy and uncertain, as the saga of the proposal to impose anti-dumping duties on leather shoe imports from China and Vietnam has demonstrated.

The attempt to impose anti-dumping duties has provoked violent differences of opinion, aggressive rhetoric ...

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