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Recently, a message to families and Shipi shoes boss just scared out of a cold sweat, cold snow: Currently, there are many Hong Kong companies received a U.S. notice requiring that their products must meet the SA8000 standard.
Cold bosses understand the standards, once implemented, including the Branch and disabilities, including "Chongqing-made" shoes will be difficult to step into the door of the developed countries.
SA8000 standard certification means companies make money on the environment and must also bear the responsibility of stakeholders, is the world's first social responsibility certification standard. Including population, labor standards and environmental protection are three main areas. Purpose is "to give market economy humanitarian." Constrained by the SA8000 standard is mainly labor-intensive products such as clothing, footwear, chemicals, textiles. Recently, the United States began to promote the compulsory certification.
Cold understood according to the boss, the U.S. implemented the standards, labor rights and the orders will be linked to the hook, "With this tool, Europe and the United States can effectively resist our countries export labor-intensive products!"
Cold boss frightening is that families and persons through the export channel for Hong Kong companies are likely to result standards misfortune: Based on past experience, once the United States to implement this standard, the EU will soon catch up, he had just received a from Spain So the big one is likely to "play chicken egg fly."
Chongqing Leather Footwear Association, the official said, on the surface, from Chongqing shoe industry seems to impact this standard: Chongqing is no business to enter the U.S. market. However, including the families and persons, including Grant and other brands into successful enterprises, including Spain, Britain as well as the EU market after the U.S., EU, once the implementation of SA8000 standards, Chongqing made leather shoes on the disaster.
Why is this standard with such "destructive"? Grant shoes for people that is the city most of the major shoe companies have not yet completed the primitive accumulation, few have the strength to meet this standard. In fact, last year, let Chongqing Nike shoes to eat this loss. The advantages of low cost Chinese and Chongqing, have been prepared to purchase large quantities of Nike sports shoes, but only received a single corporate social responsibility standards must be adopted. Weigh a few large enterprises in our city finally had to give up a bit: according to this standard, single quarters for the workers, the cost of installing air-conditioning on at least 50 million, so bright in the price of shoes industry in Chongqing, so far none have strength to achieve this standard, and this is just a number of terms in a SA8000.
Association statistics show that the city produce nearly 200 million pairs of various shoes, annual production value of almost 8.0 billion. The annual export volume of nearly 2 million pairs of export value of nearly 3,000 million. The main exporting countries are Russia, Central Europe, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom and other countries and regions. Among developed countries, exports to the EU the largest increase, up to 30%. This is also the highest profit margins of some products, between 100% -200%.
Order to link labor rights and the most injured Chemical shoes
Yesterday, the Municipal Foreign Economic and Trade Commission said that as of now, no one company in Chongqing by SA8000 standards. While the new standards in international trade is likely to appear in the shopping list of all multinational companies in Chongqing. Municipal Foreign Economic and Trade Commission said that, in addition to a small part of the processing of leather shoes and clothing, the city another major export products?? Chemical raw materials will be affected. Fortunately, the city temporarily export-quality products from motorcycles impact this standard.
Trade experts said that although the purpose of SA8000 is good, however, the general tariff and nontariff barriers continue to be cut today, is very easy to be protectionist use of a chemical enterprise in our city did not pass last year by claiming a multinational social responsibility standards review and the two cut-off.
