"Green Barrier" Has Become An Important Factor Restricting China'S Footwear Exports.

March 21st hearing at the two sessions this year,

In addition, according to media reports, the anti-dumping case against leather shoes launched by the European Union in October 2006 will expire in March 31, 2011. However, from the European Commission and the European footwear alliance, the EU will remain vigilant against footwear imported from China and may re launch new trade protection measures.

Among them, the "green barrier" will be an important factor restricting China's footwear exports.

The national footwear inspection center has found that with the continuous improvement of the quality of Chinese shoes, the quality of Chinese shoes can be easily passed through physical performance testing items such as tensile strength, adhesion strength and abrasion rate. The relative weakness is the safety performance testing of the raw materials such as nickel, chromium and cadmium, etc., and the detection of the chemical properties such as resistance, voltage and flame retardancy. The latter two involve the "green standard" of human health and environmental protection, and it is precisely the EU's "green barrier".

The EU importers issued the relevant test reports on the general requirements of the footwear exported to the exporting countries. The national footwear inspection center can be tested according to the different requirements of the customers according to the European EN standard, the international ISO standard and the German DIN standard.

In recent years, with the increase of EU technical barriers and the "poison shoes" incident, most domestic enterprises have strict checks on the health, safety and environmental protection standards of export shoes.

The EU's technical barriers are of course a factor of trade retaliation, but on the other hand, it also reflects the lag of the green production technology standards of China's footwear industry.

As China's footwear industry does not have the industry mandatory standard similar to the textile industry's basic safety technical specification for textiles, it can only refer to the product quality law and the import and export inspection and quarantine law. Even children's shoes with higher requirements must be checked with reference to toy standards.

With regard to shoes as a direct contact with human body, people's demands have gradually increased from comfort and durability to a new level of health and environmental protection.

With China's annual output of nearly 10 billion pairs of shoes becoming a big shoemaking country in the world, the "green standard" of China's footwear industry has not yet been released.

Experts believe that China should set up a "green standard" for footwear industry, strengthen environmental monitoring of footwear, and let enterprises bear the cost of environmental protection, which is also conducive to enhancing brand value-added and promoting the overall image of China's footwear industry.