FOOTWEAR

The State Administration for Market Regulation recently announced plans to improve the quality of products “through quality-related technical assistance”. Key tasks include resolving quality and safety problems related to consumer goods such as toys, stationery and children’s furniture, as well as hazardous chemicals and industrial goods such as electric wire and cables. More

Bangladesh’s National Board of Revenue (NBR) announced on 15 December 2021 that it will allow leather goods manufacturers with several production units to obtain a single bond licence. More

With the Covid-19 pandemic ravaging the world economy, figures from the National Bureau of Statistics reveal that the value-added of China’s footwear manufacturing in 2020 was down 12.8% year-on-year. Compared to 2019, China produced two billion fewer pairs of shoes in 2020. In terms of global market share, China’s footwear output was 1 percentage point down from that of 2019. More

Six U.S. government agencies on 13 July issued an updated advisory for U.S. businesses whose supply chains run through mainland China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. This document updates advice originally provided in a 1 July 2020 interagency memo and more emphatically enjoins the business community to avoid forced labour in their supply chains. More