Turkey Focuse on Exporting Shoes to Middle East

Turkey's shoe-making ability is ranked third in Europe after Italy and Spain, the main export markets are Russia and the Middle East. However, Turkey's synthetic leather, shoe materials, shoe-making machinery and chemical products, such as 60% - 70% are dependent on imports, prices are higher than China, India, Vietnam.
Turkey anti-dumping of finished shoes from 2003, finished shoes tariffs are quite high, but tariffs on shoe and shoe-making machine to the finished shoes is very low, shoe machine import duties for more than 30%. Recently India, a substantial increase in import duties (200%) of the shoe machine, shoe machine production enterprise from a large number of Indian exports to exports to Turkey, Iran and other neighboring countries; in the shoe, the Turkish-grown leather and leather quality is still good, but synthetic leather production is less, shoes and chemical materials (including synthetic leather, shoes outsole, heel, shoe tree, etc.) imported in great demand.
For Turkey, it is the best choice to focuse on the Middle East market. Faced with the challenge of the low price shoes from China, India and Vietnam, Turkey must choose its advantageous market, the Middle East. Most of the Middle East Skate Shoes come from Turkey, they will not refuse the "offensive" of Turkey.
It's written by GoodLandShoes date 4.17.2012