Vietnam Footwear Industry Association: Shoemaking Enterprises Do Not Attach Importance To Domestic Market.

Recently, Vietnam footwear association At present, Vietnam has more than 800 shoe making enterprises, with about 800 million pairs of shoes exported each year, but it does not attach importance to the domestic market of over 9000 million people.

Reported that the footwear industry is Vietnam's third largest export industry. According to statistics from the General Administration of customs, Vietnam exported about 10 billion 320 million US dollars in 2013, an increase of 18% over the same period last year. In the first half of 2014, Vietnam exported shoes 4 billion 360 million US dollars, an increase of 20%.

Vietnam? Shoemaking According to the association, 90% of Vietnamese shoe making enterprises export their products, while the domestic consumption of more than 130 million pairs of shoes per year is mostly imported from abroad.

Pan youth, Secretary General of Vietnam footwear association, said that as raw materials were imported and less style, Vietnam Domestic shoe It is difficult to compete with Chinese products.

The Secretary of the Vietnam Retail Enterprise Association, Ding Mei Luan, said that most export enterprises were unwilling to open up the mainland market because the existing machinery and equipment were only suitable for the production of export products, and the lack of investigation and Research on the demand for the mainland market made it difficult for them to sell.

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Loretta Lee, the head of the shoe factory, told the Wall Street Journal reporter that this is ridiculous. The production enterprise buys American raw cowhide and then processes it into shoes and then sells it to the United States. Last year, China bought 1 billion dollars of cowhide, mostly processed into leather shoes, and sold in the US market.

Loretta Lee said that at present, they have 50 employees in the Tennessee factory, producing shoes, which are sold in the department store of Sears, the retail price is $130, and there will be more employees in the next two years.

Although we manufacture shoes and boots in the United States, small shoe accessories are still purchased from the Asian region, of which the packaging of shoes comes from mainland China, and the shoe boxes produced in the United States are 5 times more expensive than Chinese shoe boxes.