Footwear Lobby Calls for TPA to Slash Record Duties on 2014 Imports
U.S. companies paid a record $2,671,841,761 in footwear duties in 2014, and the industry is relying on Trade Promotion Authority and the Trans-Pacific Partnership to slash footwear barriers with U.S. trade partners, said the Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America…
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in a Feb. 10 statement (here). That’s a 6.6 percent increase from the previous year, said FDRA, including 24 percent more in tariffs on imports from the countries currently negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The FDRA wants duties removed for footwear imports into the U.S., and has tried to move the Affordable Footwear Act in the past (here). Footwear industry representatives also continue to push to remove the Japanese footwear tariff-rate quota and other barriers in TPP countries (see 14040816).