Legal & Institutional – Page 10
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Amazon is facing legal problems in Europe
Birkenstock's action against Amazon in Europe comes will the American online giant is getting other types of legal challenges. The French government has filed a complaint in the Paris Tribunal de Commerce, charging that it is abusing its dominant position with some suppliers. It is seeking a fine of €10 ...
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Internet marketplaces lose a case in the ECJ
A ruling issued by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg in favor of Coty earlier this month could help build up a case for other brands premium or luxury brandsagainst the unauthorized sale of their products on third-party online retailing platforms like Amazon or eBay.Asked for its opinion ...
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Indian children stitch shoes for the global market
Children as young as eight are reportedly missing school to labor in hazardous conditions in Agra, the city of the Taj Mahal, to supply shoes for the global market. A report from the Fair Labor Association (FLA), iMentor and the Stop Child Labour Coalition (SCL), investigated conditions and called on ...
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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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The Italian shoe industry’s recovery picked up in Q2
The Italian footwear industry's revenues rose by an estimated 2.9 percent in the first half of this year while its production grew by 0.9 percent. The data marked a significant improvement compared with the whole of 2016, when production rose by only 0.3 percent in value and dropped by 2.0 ...
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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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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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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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German retailers are embracing omni-channel
Pushed by the competition from pure players in the online space like Amazon and Zalando and by the new digital services offered by the two biggest cooperatives of independent shoes retailers, ANWR and Sabu, multi-channel retailers have gained a share of 25 percent in the German online market for shoes, ...
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Sports shoes lift German shoe exports
The latest federal trade statistics show a huge 25.1 percent increase in Germany's shoe exports to €2.79 billion for the first five months of this year as compared to the same period a year ago, when they went up by 11 percent. However, industry officials indicated that the boom in ...
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Portuguese exports go up in value and volume
Shoe exports from Portugal rose by 6.4 percent in value and 7.0 percent in volume during the first half of 2017, going up to a level of 43 million pairs worth €960 million for the period. They are now covering 152 countries around the world.If the positive trend is confirmed ...
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Bangladesh has its first shoe show and big ambitions
The shoe and leathergoods industry of Bangladesh is organizing the country's first footwear trade show in November while the Bangladeshi government is considering the launch of a major program to promote the growth of the sector, which has been scoring encouraging advances on the export front in recent years.Bangladesh's footwear ...
