Shaanxi Conducts Environmental Impact Assessment Of Leather Products On Soil.

Various regions and departments attach importance to environmental protection, and different regions have adapted measures to local conditions and promulgated corresponding environmental protection policies.

Recently, Shaanxi promulgated the "implementation of opinions on soil environmental protection and comprehensive management", strictly controlling new soil pollution.

Shaanxi province will strictly control new soil pollution.

Strict environmental access, the key planning environmental impact assessment and non-ferrous metals, leather products, petroleum and coal, chemical drugs, lead-acid batteries, mining and mineral processing, printing, hazardous waste, gas stations and other projects that may have a significant impact on the soil, the soil environmental impact assessment as an important part of the environmental impact assessment, and monitoring the background value of the soil environmental quality of the characteristic pollutants, to prevent new projects from causing new pollution to the soil.

In addition, the supervision of soil environment should be strengthened, and industrial and mining enterprises should be forbidden to pfer pollutants to the soil environment in the process of disposal of waste water, waste gas and waste.

Strengthen pollution control such as chemical fertilizers and pesticides, prohibit the use of heavy metals and other toxic and hazardous substances exceeding the standard of fertilizer.

We will strive to fully understand the soil environmental conditions by the end of 2015, and establish a more perfect routine monitoring and evaluation system for soil environment, and conduct routine monitoring of the soil environment of the centralized drinking water sources of more than 60% of the total cultivated land and over 500 thousand of the population in the province.

The environmental pollution of leather industry is mainly manifested in three aspects, that is, water pollution, waste gas pollution and waste pollution to the soil. Therefore, the work of leather industry pollution is still a work that needs continuous research and perseverance.

Brazil 5% sales tax rate will increase the price of footwear imports.

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Local industry, the Pakistan government decided this year to apply 5% sales tax to local products and raise the tax rate of imported products to 17%, which led to the rise in prices of many imported products including leather goods, footwear and garments.

The industry believes that Pakistan is the only country in the world that applies different sales tax rates based on the origin, which will hinder the introduction of international brands and even increase illegal activities such as smuggling, low invoicing and false declaration.

Vietnam's exports account for 17% of the total value of South American shoe products.

In 2013, the export of footwear products to Columbia, Vietnam ranked second in total export value of US $78 million, accounting for 17% of the total imports of South American footwear products.

Although the total value of China's shoe products exported to Columbia declined by 22% in 2013, it still accounted for 52% of total imports of shoes in Columbia, while Brazil, Indonesia and Ecuador ranked 8%, 7% and 6% respectively after China and Vietnam.

Last year, the import and export of shoes and accessories dropped by 10%, just $473 million, due to Columbia's 10% import duties.