All Legal & Institutional articles – Page 17
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Uzbekistan targets full self-sufficiency in footwear
Uzbekistan is meeting almost 100 percent of the domestic demand for men's shoes and 70 percent of the domestic demand for women's shoes, according to recent comments by Dilobar Zufarovu, a spokesperson for the national shoe industry association. Moreover, the national government has indicated its support for new protectionist measures. ...
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Germany exports more outsourced shoes, imports less from EU
The revenues from the sales of footwear made in Germany, a large portion of which consists of safety and sports shoes, increased by 2.8 percent in the first six months of 2019 to €1.60 billion. As last year, they were essentially driven by the domestic market, where sales by manufacturers ...
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Russia may drop preferential taxes for shoe retailers
All the shoe stores in Russia must be transferred to the common tax regime under a draft bill that has recently passed first reading in the Russian Parliament. They would not be eligible any longer to just pay a single small tax of 15 percent on their profits or to ...
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Rick Helfenbein is resigning as president and chief executive of...
Rick Helfenbein is resigning as president and chief executive of the American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) on Dec. 31. Stephen Lamar, the association's executive vice president, will replace him the following day. Helfenbein has spent 14 years at the AAFA, serving for two years as chairman and for four years ...
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German shoe retailers recover amid online growth
German shoe retailers' sales grew by 2.5 percent in the first half of this year, recovering from the decline last year, which was due to unfavorable weather, according to the Federal Association of Shoe Retailers, BDSE.The weather played a role again in the growth, according to BDSE's president, Brigitte Wischnewski, ...
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The Italian government is expected to grant €20 million to...
The Italian government is expected to grant €20 million to €30 million in aid to financially distressed shoe companies in the areas of Fermo and Macerata, in the Marche region, naming it a “complex crisis area.” Regional authorities and other various funds are expected to participate in the program. Hit ...
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Italian shoe output drops by 2.3%
The rate of decline is softening. Italy's shoe production fell by 2.3 percent in volume in the first half of 2019, compared with a 3.3 percent decline for the whole of 2018, when the output totaled 184.3 million pairs. The trend is expected to remain roughly the same for the ...
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The German shoe market declines in volume
According to a study conducted by the Institute for Retail Research (IFH) in Cologne together with the BBE, the German consultancy for the retail industry, the German shoe market did not increase in volume from 2017 to 2018.The volume had increased each year since 2012 by an average of 0.7 ...
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Global footwear trade continues to rise
Exports and imports of footwear continued to grow for the second consecutive year in 2018, reaching an all-time record of $142 billion in terms of value, with an increase of 4.3 percent from the previous year. However, they were up by only 0.8 percent in terms of volume and still ...
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The federations of independent clothing and footwear retailers in France...
The federations of independent clothing and footwear retailers in France have announced that they will start discussing a possible merger in September. Run by Jean-François Bessec, the shoe retailers' federation, FDCF, asked the French government in March for ten measures intended to support their businesses in these difficult times.
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The chairman of India's Council for Leather Exports (CLE), Shri...
The chairman of India's Council for Leather Exports (CLE), Shri P.R. Aqeel Ahmed, led a delegation of 14 industry representatives to East African countries – including Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda – from July 21 to July 27. The visit was part of a series of initiatives to promote bilateral trade ...
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A new head for the Brazilian shoe industry
Haroldo Ferreira has become the new executive president of Abicalçados, Brazil's association of footwear manufacturers. The 52-year-old manager has been dealing with Abicalçados for some time as president of the Union of Footwear Companies in Brazil's state of Bahia. He was offered the post late last year by Rosnei Alfredo da ...
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Brazil exports more footwear to the U.S.
Brazil shipped some 58.3 million pairs of shoes, worth $480.7 million, in the first half of 2019, according to the Brazilian footwear-industry association, Abicalçados. Compared with the same period of 2018, this represents an increase in volume of 5.3 percent, but a decrease in value of 1.3 percent.In June, the ...
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Assocalzaturifici announces new board roles
Assocalzaturifici, Italy's shoe industry association, has announced new roles on its executive board, following the election of Siro Badon as chairman of the organization earlier this year, previously reported in Shoe Intelligence (Vol. 21 n°7,8 of 18/04/2019). Badon's tenure, which will run through 2023, started at the recent annual meeting ...
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Skechers and Adidas have reached a settlement in their dispute...
Skechers and Adidas have reached a settlement in their dispute over footwear stripes. A filing by Skechers on July 29 at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California asked for the dismissal without prejudice of a lawsuit brought by Adidas, which had claimed that Skechers' Goldie-Peaks shoe infringed its Three Stripes ...
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The partners behind the “Skills4Smart TCLF Industries 2030 Blueprint” have...
The partners behind the “Skills4Smart TCLF Industries 2030 Blueprint” have announced that the European project has entered its second phase, according to the Confederation of the European Shoe Industry (CEC). Vocational Education and Training (VET) providers across Europe are invited to contribute to defining qualification profiles and to shape the ...
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While confirming its intention to impose an additional punitive 10...
While confirming its intention to impose an additional punitive 10 percent import duty on many still unspecified footwear categories and other products originating in China, the administration of President Donald Trump announced on Aug. 13 a postponed implementation for some of the products from Sept. 1 to Dec. 15. There ...
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The EU reaches a trade pact with Mercosur
Twenty years after the start of negotiations, the European Union concluded on June 28 a trade agreement with Mercosur. While indicating that it may take two years for the deal to be formalized, the European Commission noted that the EU is the first major partner to strike a trade pact ...
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Détente on the international trade front
Three moves on the international trade front that have taken place in the last few days have given the shoe industry and the world economy positive signals in the direction of free trade.While the U.S. decided not to go ahead with a new set of punitive tariffs on imports from ...
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Dangerous smuggled shoes are sold in Ukraine
All the footwear sold in the stores of a Ukrainian retailer, Konfiscat Obuv, could be dangerous to the health of customers, said the Ukraine shoe industry association, Ukrkozhobuvprom, in a public statement, drawing public attention to a serious smuggling problem in the country.According to the association, this company has been ...
