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The gorgeous time back

After the decline period 1999-2004, the vulcanized shoes have been back as very hot items in both EU and US markets. Vulcanized shoes were well-known with Superga brand, Italy in the late 90’ and then successfully developed by Converse in the US. In the gorgeous decade of the 90’ footwear factories in Vietnam and China rushed to invest facilities to produce vulcanized shoes with the upper usually made of canvas...

US named the 1st importer of VN footwear

The export turnover of the industry to the USA surged to 611M US Dollars in 2005 named the country the 1st importer of VN foowear. It is no doubt US will also lead the list in 2006 with the expected turnover 750M.

However, the market share of Vietnam footwear in the US import market stands only 4% compared with China 85%.

Vietnam footwear export gains 3.6B in 2006

The export turnover of the footwear industry in Vietnam reaches 3.6 billion US Dollars in 2006, according to Lefaso. The industry is facing the anti-dumping measure by the EU with the AD duty of 10%. Some small companies specialized in leather shoes have to shut down...