In a letter to the president-elect, the FDRA, the association of distributors and retailers of footwear in the United States, where the major international footwear brands are also associated, gave a detailed account of the current situation in the sector and specific claims.
Referred to the growing deterioration of the commercial structure of footwear in the country, due to the pandemic, which is expressed daily in the closures of shops and sales premises in general.
Claim more points were, the urgent removal of existing punitive tariffs on imports of footwear and reentry into the Transpacific trade agreement.
On tariffs, they reported that in the United States admitted 2,400 million pairs of shoes per year -7.4 x person- pairs and "American families are paying tens of millions more than they should as a result of outdated trade policies". Footwear import rates in the United States range from 12% to 67%.
Regarding the integration to the Trans-Pacific agreement, the entity indicated that it would be strategic for the leadership of the United States in the Asia-Pacific region to promote change without imposing tariffs on US companies, creating new economic opportunities, including for consumers.
