All Legal & Institutional articles – Page 25
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A Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the European Union and...
A Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the European Union and the Mercosur bloc of countries (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay) is unlikely to be concluded before the end of this year, as previously expected. The negotiations have been going on for almost two decades. According to Reuters, the European Commission ...
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Deckers Brands is taking new action against websites and online...
Deckers Brands is taking new action against websites and online marketplace that sell counterfeit Ugg products, seeking to have their domains and accounts seized even if the operators cannot be identified. The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, asks for it to order ...
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The Czech Leather and Footwear Association (COKA) has been accepted...
The Czech Leather and Footwear Association (COKA) has been accepted as the 12th member of the European Confederation of the Footwear Industry (CEC) at its general assembly in Brussels, commencing in January. Hungary had become a member last year. With the addition of the Czech Republic, CEC will represent almost ...
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The Indian government is reportedly getting ready to support the...
The Indian government is reportedly getting ready to support the leather manufacturing sector. As part of this program, the sales tax for finished leather is set to decline from 12 percent to 5 percent, and the tax on leathergoods and leather garments from 28 to 18 percent. Other measures will ...
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Italy’s shoe exports recover in the CIS area
The Italian shoe industry association, Assocalzaturifici, reports an excellent response to the Italian shoemakers' collections shown at the recent Obuv Mir Kozi fair in Moscow and the Shoes from Italy exhibitions organized in concert with the Italian Export Commission (Ice) in Almaty and Kiev.Ice has given further assistance to the ...
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Aquazzurra has dropped the counterfeiting suit it had launched against...
Aquazzurra has dropped the counterfeiting suit it had launched against Ivanka Trump one year ago, alleging that the brand's licensee, Marc Fisher, had copied the design of one of its sandals. It could not be determined whether the two parties have reached an out-of-court settlement
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J.M. Weston is launching Ultra Weston, its most luxurious line....
J.M. Weston is launching Ultra Weston, its most luxurious line. The Ultra Weston collection, which the brand describes as a “celebration of the quintessence of shoemaking savoir-faire,” includes four models featuring special details such as petit point stitching in pearl grey, hand-painted sole arches and hand-pegging with W decoration.
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Hewlett Packard has stepped into the footwear market with FitStation,...
Hewlett Packard has stepped into the footwear market with FitStation, a system for 3D foot-scanning, dynamic gait analysis and personalized shoe production. Powered by HP hardware and software, FitStation captures 500 measurements per second to create a one-of-a-kind digital profile of each foot. Hewlett Packard has worked with a group ...
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Ukraine has obtained new trade preferences from the European Union...
Ukraine has obtained new trade preferences from the European Union that increase the quantity of products the country can export to the EU free of duties, including footwear. The trade measure, which came into force on Oct. 1, will offer several Ukrainian agricultural and industrial goods better access to the ...
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Gianvito Rossi is launching its first men's collection and is...
Gianvito Rossi is launching its first men's collection and is opening two new men's boutiques to house the new line. The shoes of the new men's 2017 collection are said to be made from specifically naturally-tanned leathers. The new men's boutiques of the Italian luxury shoe designer will open at ...
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Fabletics is launching its first shoe collection. The retailer will...
Fabletics is launching its first shoe collection. The retailer will offer 11 styles of athletic and lifestyle shoes including training shoes, booties, slip ons, high tops and lifestyle sneakers. The footwear capsule collection will be exclusively available to members on Fabletics' e-commerce site in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Germany, France, ...
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Diadora has started a collaboration with Sympatex for a line...
Diadora has started a collaboration with Sympatex for a line of waterproof work boots
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Starting in Poland, partners in a program called “Shoes Made...
Starting in Poland, partners in a program called “Shoes Made in EU: The European Shoemaker,” are launching an online course promoted by the European Confederation of the Footwear Industry (CEC) and funded by the European Commission. Shoemakers and young students are encouraged to register for free to access the material ...
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Fly London is launching a line of boots designed in...
Fly London is launching a line of boots designed in partnership with a Spanish artist, Cristina Rodrigues
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Vietnam and Bangladesh perform better than India
India's exports of footwear, leather and leathergoods declined by 3.23 percent in the last financial year, falling for the second consecutive year. They amounted to $5.66 billion for the year from April 2016 to March 2017 as compared to $5.85 billion in the previous year. The drop follows a fall ...
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Brussels has continued its crackdown on tax avoidance by big...
Brussels has continued its crackdown on tax avoidance by big multinationals by ordering Amazon to repay €250 million in illegal state aid to Luxembourg. The penalty issued earlier this month, follows on from the record €13 billion demanded from Apple for Irish back-taxes last year, in a case that is ...
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Spanish shoe production is stable, but the average value goes up
Figures from the Spanish shoe industry association, Fice, show that the country's shoe production remained largely stable in 2016 as compared to 2015. It dropped only slightly by 0.7 percent to a total volume of 102 million pairs.In terms of value, Spain's shoe production increased by 2.3 percent to a ...
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Cotance (Confederation of National Associations of Tanners and Dressers of...
Cotance (Confederation of National Associations of Tanners and Dressers of the European Community) is urging the European Commission to implement specific regulations on leather authenticity labelling within the EU market. The topic of “leather authenticity” was part of the agenda of Cotance's Autumn Council on Oct. 6. According to the ...
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Will anti-dumping duties be restored in Europe?
The European Parliament, the Council and the Commission have reached a compromise agreement on the methodology that should be used for the calculation of dumping margins and other market distortions that is expected to be more transparent than the previous one. Declining to consider China as a market economy, despite ...
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Digel, a big German brand of tailored menswear with annual...
Digel, a big German brand of tailored menswear with annual sales of more than €100 million and a presence in 45 countries, has launched its own line of footwear, made primarily in India and China. Shown for the first time at theMicam in Milan last month, it will be offered ...
