"calzado deportivo" in English

In my opinion we can and must try to define it, because a divided Europe is a weaker Europe.

After all, children's and sports shoes from China and Vietnam are also sold at dumping prices.

A number of Members have asked me why I am proposing to exclude sports technology shoes and children’s shoes.

There is therefore no injury to European producers because they barely exist in the case of these sports shoes.

A number of Members have asked me why I am proposing to exclude sports technology shoes and children ’ s shoes.

However, now we see that it is precisely sports shoes that have become a symbol for human exploitation.

I have proposed to exclude high-tech sports shoes which are no longer produced in significant numbers in Europe.

A 6,5mm thick boot shaped like an athletic shoe, yet constructed with a lightweight sole with added flexibility.

It nevertheless means that after six months the full duty will be in place and the damaging effects of dumping will be counteracted.

I can still see why we have taken sports shoes out of the procedure, but why have we done so with children’s shoes?

The exclusion of non-professional sports shoes and children’s shoes (which can also include women’s shoes) is also unacceptable.

Not only are they put to work as cheap labour in plantations, quarries and mines, but they are also exploited by the manufacturers of sports goods.

A duty would be just over EUR 1.50 on average wholesale prices of EUR 8.50 on shoes which then sell for between EUR 40 and EUR 120, as opposed to a duty which would simply amount to EUR 1.50.

That is important to our producers within the European Union, and it is important that we in the European Union should keep to the rules, just as we demand that our trading partners should do.

In the case of the sports shoes, these are excluded from the investigation because they are not produced in Europe in sufficient quantity to qualify as being potentially harmed by dumping.