The Sales of EU high-ending Luxury Footwear Products Remain Strong

The EU is unique in the major developed countries entity will continue to have large-scale and successful footwear manufacturing industry, many international brands, including most of the procurement of raw materials from overseas. EU total production of approximately 500 million 82 million pairs in 2010, of which export outside the EU about two hundred and fourteen million pairs of local sales of about $ 168 million pairs. The main producing countries are Italy, Spain, Portugal, the increase in social costs due to rising wages in developed countries and manufactured in these countries in recent years to maintain production for the struggle.
Particular Italy and Spain, they have in recent years to maintain stable production and look forward to rise again after the global economic upturn. The EU is the world's largest footwear importer, total imports in 2010 to 2.839 billion pairs, of which 1.61 billion pairs of imports from China, 220 million pairs imported from Vietnam. EU import tariffs lowest in the world, such preferential countries such as Brazil and India only 3.5% to 4.5%, other countries, the average import tariff of 8%.
The EU's annual per capita footwear consumption is usually high, about six pairs, but the internal situation in the EU vary, the Spanish footwear products per capita consumption of 8.2 pairs, the United Kingdom is 7.5 pairs, Hungary, only 1.3 pairs , Turkey (non-EU countries) 1.8 pairs. Upscale and luxury footwear product sales remain strong, about 40% of the EU footwear retail products are priced more than 140 dollars, only 23% of the product is less than 30 dollars.
It's written by skate shoes date 2.14.2012