The United States Will Cancel Import Tariffs On Footwear.

< p > according to Japan's Kyodo news recently reported that the "p Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)" negotiations revealed that, "a href=" //www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_q.asp "," the US government "/a" decided to cancel the import tariffs on footwear products, the aim is to push trade liberalization to make concessions to other negotiating countries. In the future, the United States will further exert pressure on Japan to maintain its tariffs on important agricultural products to open the market.

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P put forward this policy at the TPP chief negotiator's meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, in order to win agreement within the year, and the United States or other countries should make concessions to each other.

According to the American shoe dealers and Retailers Association, the average import duty on footwear products in the United States is about 10%, most of which are imported from China.

According to the analysis, only about 1% of the footwear products in the US domestic market are produced in the country, and all are high-end products or military supplies.

Even if the Chinese mainland did not participate in the TPP negotiations, even if the US government abolished the footwear tariffs within this framework, the impact on China's "a href=" //www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_s.asp "manufacturer" /a "was also very limited.

The cross member group of the US Senate and the Senate sent a letter to Frohman, the trade representative, to request immediate cancellation of the footwear tariff, saying it would benefit American businesses and consumers.

The letter from the US Chamber of Commerce said that the abolition of footwear tariffs could lead TPP negotiators to reach important agreements on the open market, and looked forward to this as an exchange for the expansion of exports of us products and services in negotiations with Vietnam.

It is understood that Vietnam is the second largest importer of footwear in the United States, accounting for 7%~8% of the market.

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< p > at the recent TPP negotiation conference held in Indonesia, the dispute between the us a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_x.asp" and the shoe enterprises < /a > has reflected the difficulties faced by the United States and the other 11 countries in negotiating TPP.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the obstacle encountered by the TPP negotiations was the tariff imposed by the United States on footwear imports, which can be traced back to the 60s of the last century.

In the context of the continuous pfer of manufacturing to Bangladesh, Vietnam and other countries with lower labour costs, the United States has maintained a 10% tariff for a long time, hoping to protect the shrinking domestic manufacturing industry.

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Michael Froman, a trade representative responsible for TPP negotiations in the United States, said that the United States hoped that P could promote the development of domestic manufacturing and create growth opportunities and open markets in all fields.

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