11月20日，2005
      欧洲体育用品行业联合会（The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry，PESI）与欧盟贸易代表彼得.曼得尔森(Peter Mandelson)就被指控的中国和越南鞋的反倾销调查进行了会谈。PESI的代表向曼得尔森解释说保护主义的措施将给整个欧洲的体育用品公司和零售商，以及消费者和运动员带来巨大的损失。
      他们还告诉这位贸易代表最近几周以来他们已经获得了几乎所有欧盟成员国官员的明显支持，“这项调查是部分国家为了它们自己的好处试图扭曲贸易而夸大投诉发起的，”PESI贸易委员会的主席卡尔.塞得梅尔(Karl Sedlmeyer)说,“亚洲在运动鞋市场上的经营已经超过了十年，保护欧盟并不存在的行业不能改变这个事实。”
      PESI请求曼得尔森尽可能的进行广泛的咨询，考虑体育用品市场在欧盟超过64万的设计、营销和物流的工作岗位。PESI同时指出高科技的运动鞋从1994年以来就已经免于所有的配额和贸易措施，原因很明显，欧洲并没有实际这样的行业需要保护。塞得梅尔补充说，“我们必须吸取这个夏天欧盟－中国纺织品谈判的教训，这项调查的危害性可能更大。”
      对来自中国和越南的皮革鞋的反倾销调查启动于今年7月，欧盟委员会在咨询成员国后将在接下来的几个月中决定临时性的措施。如果这个调查导致反倾销措施，进口关税或者其他的手段比如最低进口价可能会实施。PESI直接和间接代表的欧洲体育用品行业雇佣了643000的工人，04年的成交额是400亿欧元。PESI的成员包括：Adidas、Asics、Diadora、Fila、Loto、Nike、Puma、Reebok以及欧盟各国的体育行业的联合会。
 

                 Euro SG Association Opposes Possible EU Action On Footwear

    The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry met with European Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson to discuss the European Commission s investigation into allegations of dumping by China and Vietnam of footwear with leather uppers. FESI representatives explained to Mandelson the massive damage that protectionist measures would have on sporting goods companies and retailers, as well as the interests of consumers and athletes, across Europe.
     They also told the Commissioner of the significant support they have received from officials during meetings with almost all EU member states over recent weeks. "This investigation has been instigated by an overly wide-ranging complaint backed by a few countries that are seeking to distort trade in their favour," said FESI Trade Committee Chairman Karl Sedlmeyer. "Footwear production in Asia has been a reality of the sporting shoes market for over a decade and protecting non-existent European industries will not change that."
     FESI asked Mandelson to consult as widely as possible and take into account the over 640,000 high-value jobs in the EU in design, marketing, sales and logistics in the sporting goods market, all of which would be under threat from this investigation. FESI also pointed out that hi-technology sports footwear has been exempted from all quotas and trade measures implemented by the EU since  94 for precisely the reason that there is no viable European manufacturing industry in this sector to protect. "China and Vietnam are world leaders in the manufacture of hi-technology sporting footwear and cutting off these sources of supply would put a whole European industry at risk," added Sedlmeyer. "We must learn the lessons following the EU/China textiles negotiations over the summer. This investigation has the potential to be much more damaging."
     The antidumping investigation on footwear with leather uppers from China and Vietnam was launched this past July. The European Commission in consultation with Member States will decide on provisional measures over the next few months. If the investigation results in antidumping measures, an import duty or other instruments such as minimum import price could be introduced. The European sporting goods industry represented by FESI directly and indirectly employs 643,000 workers in the EU with turnover of over EUR 40 billion in economic activity in  04. FESI members include: Adidas, Asics, Diadora, Fila, Lotto, Nike, Puma, Reebok and national sports industry federations from across the EU.