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China has threatened the European Union with legal action after EU governments voted to renew punitive anti-dumping tariffs against imports of Chinese and Vietnamese footwear.
The tariffs, intended to protect European leather manufacturers from below-cost Asian competition, were renewed for 15 months in spite of a recommendation by European trade officials that they be scrapped. The duties, first imposed in 2006, amount to a 16.5% import tax on leather shoes from China and a 10% levy on Vietnamese shoe imports.
China said that it would take its challenge to the WTO.
The decision over whether to renew the anti-dumping measures provoked a loud debate, in which Europe’s big retailers clashed with supporters of Europe’s struggling footwear businesses, mainly located in Mediterranean nations. The argument set northern states, including Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark against their southern peers, notably Italy, Portugal and Spain.
The tariffs are opposed by multinational footwear groups, such as adidas and Nike, which typically source their products from East Asia. The European Council said in its decision that EU manufacturers were adapting their business models and the measures would be an additional safety net, allowing more time for the transition. It said that shoppers would not be disadvantaged, that importers were healthy and that retailers were in a strong position.

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The number of new mortgages in November returned to levels last seen two years ago just after the peak in house prices, according to the latest data from the British Bankers’ Association.
New loans for buying homes totaled 44713, comfortably above the average of the previous six months and 0.4% higher than the level in November 2007. Compared with 2008, the number of loans has more than doubled, but the BBA said this was merely a reflection of how bad the economy was last year rather than an explosion of demand today.
Moreover, the number of loans for remortgaging is 25% below its level of November 2008 and is only a third that seen at this time in 2007. “In the absence of remortgaging activity, gross lending is unlikely to grow from its current level,” the BBA said. Loans for equity withdrawal are about half their level of two years ago.
Overall, the BBA said the data suggested that households were paying off debt or accumulating savings. “Household priorities are showing up in the November figures,” said David Dooks, statistics director for the BBA. “Demand for new personal loans was weak and people are paying off debt or building savings in response to economic circumstances.”
Indeed, official data this week indicated that the national household savings rate at 8.6%, the highest level in more than 10 years and a stark contrast to the negative savings rate seen in early 2008.
One bright spot in the data was a small climb in lending to non-financial companies, the backbone of British industry.

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Glencore, the world’s dominant commodity trader, has taken its first step towards becoming a public company by issuing up to $2.2bn in convertible bonds to strategic investors in the US, Singapore and China.
The issue, which values the publicity shy, Switzerland-based company at $35bn, has been taken up by First Reserve, the US-based private equity group which focuses on natural resources, GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund; US-based BlackRock’ and China’s Zijin Mining Group.
Glencore said in a statement that the bonds were convertible “into Glencore shares upon a qualifying IPO or upon other pre-determined qualifying events”.
An IPO would trigger massive windfall gains for many of Glencore’s employees, who own the firm, including its South Afican chief executive Ivan Glasenberg. However, a flotation is unlikely in the short term as the trading house could wait for a bigger rise in commodities prices to achieve an even higher valuation, according to people familiar with the trader.
Glencore dwarfs its rivals in terms of size and the number of raw materials it trades. It also owns a variety of mining assets and companies. The value of its 34.5% stake in Xstrata, the blue-chip mining company, has risen from £2.2bn to £10.9bn this year. Glencore’s net income more than halved in the first half of the year to $1.12bn, down from $2.63bn in the same period of 2008 due to the drop in commodity prices. Revenues dropped to $45.2bn.
The proceeds of Glencore’s capital raising could enable it to buy back from Xstrata the prized Prodeco coal complex in Colombia. Glencore agreed to sell this asset to Xstrata for $2bn in January to take up its share of Xstrata’s rights issue.
The company’s increasing openness moves further it away from its roots under Marc Rich, the oil trader who founded Glencore in 1974 but later sold out to management. In 1983, Rudolph Giuliani, then a US prosecutor, indicated Mr. Rich.
The association with Mr. Rich, while severed long ago, added to the compnay’s reputation as a publicity-shy player with “black box” strategies and positions.

The Conran Group is to alter its focus abroad after annual losses deepened to £7.9 million.
Pre-tax losses at the company, which owns The Conran Shop, an architecture and design practice and a licensing business, widened from £1.1 million last year, partly due to the costs associated with closing a store in New York.
The company, owned by Sir erence Conran, the entrepreneur hwo founded Habitat, will close its Manhattan store and open a concession at ABC, an upmarket furniture retailer on Broadway. D&D London Restaurants, the chain set up by Sir Terence, of which the Conran Group owns 51%, remained profitable. Revenue fell to £74,5 million in the year to March 31, from £76 million last year.
Roger Mavity, chief executive, said that the Conran Group was shifting its focus to the Far East.