Wenzhou shoe company calls for "China Standard"

According to media reports, the anti-dumping case against leather shoes formally launched by the EU in October 2006 will expire on March 31, 2011. However, many sources from the European Commission and the European Footwear Federation have heard that the EU will import from China. Footwear continues to be highly vigilant and may relaunch new trade protection measures. The "green barriers" will be an important factor restricting the export of Chinese footwear.

The National Footwear Testing Center discovered during the related testing process that with the continuous improvement of the quality of Chinese shoes, physical property testing items such as tensile strength, adhesive strength, and wear rate can often be easily passed, while the relatively weak items are shoes. The testing of the safety performance of heavy metals such as nickel, chromium, and cadmium, etc., and the testing of chemical resistance such as resistance value, withstand voltage, and flame retardancy, the latter two are related to the “green standards” of human health and environmental protection, and it is precisely the European Union. The "green barrier" sword points to the direction.

EU importers generally have relevant inspection reports on the exporting country’s footwear, and the national footwear testing center can perform tests according to the different requirements of customers according to European EN standards, international ISO standards, and German DIN standards. In recent years, along with the heightening of the technical barriers in the EU and the 'toxic shoes' incident, most domestic companies have strict standards for the health, safety and environmental protection of exported footwear, but it can also be said that corporate inspections are passive actions aimed at export. The technical barriers to the European Union, of course, have factors of trade retaliation. However, on the other hand, it also reflects the lag in the technical standards for green production of China's footwear industry.

Since China’s footwear industry does not have industry-like mandatory standards similar to the “National Textile Basic Safety Technical Specification” in the textile industry, it can only refer to the requirements of the “Product Quality Law” and “Import and Export Inspection and Quarantine Law.” Even the higher-demanding children's shoes are Have to refer to the toy standards for testing, export shoes in the "passive test" foreign technical standards of the situation, domestic shoes are even more lack of health and environmental protection standards.

For shoes, the human body's direct contact with objects, people's requirements have gradually improved from comfort and wear to a new level of health and environmental protection. China's annual production of nearly 10 billion pairs of shoes has become the world's shoe-making country, China's footwear industry's own "green standards" has yet to come. Experts believe that China should establish a "green standard" for the footwear industry to strengthen the monitoring of footwear environmental protection and allow companies to take up environmental protection costs. This will also help increase brand value and promote the overall image of China's footwear industry.