Press Release: European Commission releases surveillance data for footwear imports to the EU from China, rest of world

The European Commission on 8 June 2005 published the results of its monitoring of footwear imports to the EU from China and the rest of the world for the first four months of 2005. This detailed monitoring, requested by Member States in January 2005, applied to six categories of footwear imports liberalised following the elimination of quotas on 1 January 2005. These figures showed that in particular Chinese footwear imports in these six categories had risen steeply compared with the same period in 2004.