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The new Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the...
The new Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the European Union (EU) and Canada, which was recently approved by the European Parliament in Strasbourg, could have positive repercussions on Italy's footwear industry. The vote of the Canadian Parliament is scheduled for this coming April. The agreement will then have ...
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The European Union (EU) is supporting the footwear industry in...
The European Union (EU) is supporting the footwear industry in Pakistan with a new e-learning tool on shoe-pattern making in Urdu. The tool was inaugurated by Anne Marchal, the EU deputy head of mission to Pakistan, alongside the Pakistan Mega Leather Show 2017 in Lahore on Jan. 29. Marchal handed ...
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DJP Holdings has reached a settlement with Donald J. Pliner,...
DJP Holdings has reached a settlement with Donald J. Pliner, founder and former designer of the eponymous brand, and his wife, Lisa Pliner, in a lawsuit filed against the couple last year. DJP Holdings, the new parent company of Donald J Pliner footwear lines, filed a suit against the Pliners ...
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) has received a complaint filed...
The World Trade Organization (WTO) has received a complaint filed by China on the European Union's rules on calculating what constitutes dumping. The document says that, since China acceded to the WTO, it had been agreed that specific price-comparison rules would apply for the country for a transitional period of ...
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The European Confederation of the Footwear Industry (CEC) has obtained...
The European Confederation of the Footwear Industry (CEC) has obtained funding from the European Commission under its Erasmus+ program for a new project to establish a qualification profile for “luxury footwear manufacturing technicians.” A few companies will be invited to follow selected modules for the related training program in a ...
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) has received a complaint filed...
The World Trade Organization (WTO) has received a complaint filed by China on the European Union's rules on calculating what constitutes dumping. The document says that, since China acceded to the WTO, it had been agreed that specific price-comparison rules would apply for the country for a transitional period of ...
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Deckers Brands has attacked H&M in a federal court in...
Deckers Brands has attacked H&M in a federal court in Los Angeles, charging that boots sold in its stores imitate Ugg's Bailey Button style
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Using the money usually budgeted for Christmas presents, Assocalzaturifici has...
Using the money usually budgeted for Christmas presents, Assocalzaturifici has donated ten new beds for patients at a regional hospital of Fermo, in the Marche region where many shoemakers operate, following the earthquake that struck several times the town of Amandola and other towns in the region between August and ...
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Hungary is the 11th country to be represented by CEC,...
Hungary is the 11th country to be represented by CEC, the European Confederation of the Footwear Industry, led by Cleto Sagripanti. On Dec. 15, CEC general assembly in Brussels formalized the membership of the Association of the Hungarian Light Industry (AHLI), which represents manufacturers of shoes and components through ...
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Inescop, the Spanish institute for footwear research, will work with...
Inescop, the Spanish institute for footwear research, will work with the Arsutoria design school to present and demonstrate its design software at international fairs. Arsutoria's teachers have been holding courses at Inescop since the 1990s.
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Juan Carlos Fernández de Salort, chief executive of Pons Quintana,...
Juan Carlos Fernández de Salort, chief executive of Pons Quintana, the footwear brand in the Spanish island of Menorca, is to take up a parallel role as the first-ever president of the organizing committee of the Momad Shoes exhibition in Madrid, which became an independent trade show in 2013. He ...
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Matt Priest, president of the Footwear Distributors & Retailers of...
Matt Priest, president of the Footwear Distributors & Retailers of America (FDRA), will assume the title of chief executive of the Washington-based association, which he joined in 2009
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The victory of Donald Trump in the presidential elections is...
The victory of Donald Trump in the presidential elections is not helping the footwear line of his daughter Ivanka Trunk, which is marketed by Mark Fisher. Shoes.com, the North American online shoe retailer, pulled the line out of its website after a Californian marketing specialist, Shannon Coulter, launched a boycott ...
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A new Italy-China Fashion and Creative Council has been established...
A new Italy-China Fashion and Creative Council has been established to promote the relations between the two countries in the fashion and design sectors. The first committee was launched on the occasion of Expo Milano last year. The project is backed by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development, the Italian ...
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The Court of Appeals in the U.K. has confirmed that...
The Court of Appeals in the U.K. has confirmed that the sale of grey market goods, also known as “parallel imports,” is now subject to criminal liability under the country's trademark laws. Parallel imports are authentic goods bought outside of a maker's intended chain of distribution and imported to compete ...
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According to reports in the local media, the Indonesian government...
According to reports in the local media, the Indonesian government may raise excise taxes on exports of unprocessed and semi-finished leather to restrict sales abroad, amid a shortage of the raw material locally. The excise taxes currently range between 15 and 16 percent. The amount of the possible tax increase ...
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Sioux reached an out-of-court settlement with the German Olympic Sports...
Sioux reached an out-of-court settlement with the German Olympic Sports Association, DOSB, and German Sport Marketing (DSM) resolving the dispute about the termination of the sponsorship agreement between DSM and Sioux. The sponsorship contract with DSM was supposed to run to Dec. 1. Sioux dismissed the claim made by the ...
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Several reports published in the last few weeks suggested that...
Several reports published in the last few weeks suggested that the European Union was going to impose new anti-dumping duties of 16.5 percent on certain non-athletic leather shoes from a number of suppliers in China and Vietnam. Following consultations with the Confederation of the European Footwear Industry (CEC) and other ...
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Airwair International has sued an American supplier of women's footwear,...
Airwair International has sued an American supplier of women's footwear, Wanted Shoes, claiming that it infringed its trademarks for the design of the outsole and upper of one of its Dr. Martens models, the Platinum Bootie. The lawsuit was filed in the District Court of Northern California.
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Italy's Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, was at the opening of...
Italy's Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, was at the opening of the exhibition “Crafting the future,” which will be at Milan's Museum of Cultures (Mudec) until Oct. 13. The exhibition, supported by Italy's Ministry of Economic Development and the Italian Trade Agency (Ice), is a showcase of Italian craftsmanship and design, ...
