VIETNAM FRAUD
July 1st, 2003
Keith NuthallTHE CONTINUED threat posed by Chinese shoe exporters willing to fraudulently exploit trade concessions in European Union markets enjoyed by its east Asian neighbours has led to the likely extension of surveillance measures designed to crack down on the problem. These have been developed in long standing negotiations between the EU and Vietnam and led to a monitoring agreement in 2000. This has now expired, and the European Commission has asked EU ministers to extend the system - more or less intact - until December 2004. At that time, World Trade ...
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