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EU introduces tariffs on Cambodian shoes
As of August 12, Cambodian footwear and other products such as garments and travel goods are subject to the European Union’s customs duties. The move comes after the EU decided to partially withdraw Cambodia’s duty-free quota-free access to the single market because of a lack of respect of human and ...
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ArticleCCILU open to partnerships on new green material
CCILU, the Taiwanese brand of lifestyle footwear, has launched Greenplax, a new ecological raw material for outsoles, insoles and upper fabric upcycled from plastic bottles. The announcement is accompanied by a $20,000 crowdfunding and marketing campaign on Kickstarter for a shoe model called Renee, said to incorporate the equivalent of ...
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Grendene suspends production in Sobral again due to Covid-19 lockdown
The Brazilian footwear manufacturer Grendene has suspend production in Sobral, where it has its largest manufacturing base, following a municipal decree. The company already had to close its sites in the town and other parts of the country due to restriction orders to combat the propagation of the Covid-19 pandemic. ...
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Cambodian manufacturers plead for postponement of EU sanctions
Sales of Cambodian apparel, footwear and travel goods are estimated to fall by 50 to 60 percent in the second quarter year-on-year, according to the Cambodia Footwear Association, the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia and the European Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia. In a co-signed letter sent to the European ...
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ArticleMaterial Exchange rides the digitalization wave
Material Exchange, an online platform for the procurement of materials based in Stockholm, has seen growth in the number of its footwear and fashion supplier and brand members accelerate as the Covid-19 pandemic gives a new impetus to digitalization.
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Grendene resumes partial production in Ceará state
On June 1, the Brazilian footwear manufacturer Grendene resumed production at its plants in Crato and Fortaleza, both in the state of Ceará, which had been temporarily closed because of the Covid-19 pandemic. On June 8, Grendene expects to resume production in Sobral, also located in Ceará and where it ...
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UK to erase import tariffs for leather from 2021
The British government has removed import duties for leather in its new tariff regime known as the U.K. Global Tariff (UKGT), and which will replace the European Union’s Common External Tariff (CET) from Jan. 1, 2021. But tariffs for leather footwear remain largely unchanged.
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APLF postponed to 2021, offers digital matching solutions
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the organizers of the Asia Pacific Leather Fair (APLF) have finally decided to postpone until next year the annual edition of the event. To keep the business community connected, APLF is offering digital solutions and on May 7 is holding a sourcing event ...
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Germany withstands the disease in better ways
Italy, the largest shoe manufacturing country on the continent, has suffered the highest number of deaths, followed by Spain, the second-largest producer. The official number of deaths related to the epidemic is now higher in Italy than in China, where it started last December. After Italy, Spain became the second ...
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Italy’s 2019 shoe production fell by 3.1% in volume
Italian footwear production fell by 3.1 percent to 178.6 million pairs in 2019 as the industry continued to suffer from a weak domestic market and a decline in export volumes, according to an estimate released by the Italian shoe industry association Assocalzaturifici. The value of the production rose by 1.3 ...
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Lower foreign and domestic sales by German shoe companies
The growth of the German footwear industry weakened in 2019, weighed down once again by lower sales abroad, according to an annual report by the Federal Association of the German Footwear and Leathergoods Industry (HDS/L) and presented at the Gallery Shoes fair in Düsseldorf earlier this month. In 2019, ...
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Weak sales of winter footwear in Russia and Ukraine
Footwear retailers in Russia and Ukraine experienced a slump in sales because of abnormally warm weather this season. Sales in all categories of winter products plummeted by between 6 and 25 percent in Ukraine as compared to the previous winter, according to Igor Zabulonsky, general director of KarKat Fashion. ...
