The European Commission imposed the duties in 2006, following a complaint by European manufacturers who argued that they were unable to compete with shoes dumped in the European market by low-cost producers in China and Vietnam.
Ever the iconoclast, Ms. Philo deconstructed the sugary and shimmery sweetness of her chiffons and silks with a pair of the most ridiculed shoes in fashion, lined with the most counterintuitive fabric for a summer's day: mink.
Pearl was researching Pakistani extremists and their possible links to Richard Reid, who was arrested in December on a flight from Paris to Miami allegedly with explosives in his shoes.
Among the no-no's: more than three color shades in an outfit, white socks with black shoes, and pajamas and slippers in public.
Binmen in a Hertfordshire city are going to be issued with snow shoes to help them to work in icy conditions.
Fellow poker player Robert Williamson dressed in all black and white, from his hat to his shoes, with one exception socks covered in sometimes neon-colored daisies.
Berluti is targeting the top end of the market, with shoes that can take their craftsman in Italy about 20 hours to make.
With shoes one of the hottest classifications in retailing, especially with younger people, the entire store benefits from a robust and dynamic shoe department.
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Hsieh is chief executive of Zappos.com, an online shoe vendor with an inventory of 4 million shoes in 200, 000 styles from 1, 200 shoemakers, including Bruno Magli, Nike and Ugg.
Hsieh is chief executive of Zappos.com, an online shoe vendor with an inventory of 4 million shoes in 200, 000 styles from 1, 200 shoemakers, including Bruno Magli, Nike (nyse: NKE - news - people ) and Ugg.
We currently forecast Jones to maintain steady margins across its product segments in 2011 as the firm plans to raise prices on clothes and its more expensive shoes in first half of the year, followed with hikes across all of its products in the second half.
Since its founding in 2006 by Blake Mycoskie, TOMS has matched every pair of TOMS shoes purchased with a new pair given to a child in need.
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She eventually hired people to do the things she knew she was not good at and with each hire she shook in her shoes that she was overextending.
Toyota wants to build vehicles more the way Nike assembles its shoes--with the soles made in one country, cloth uppers cut in a nearby country, all stitched together in a third country.
The shoes were developed in collaboration with Darren James and Dr. David Cook, biomechanists at London's South Bank University, with an ergonomically optimized "Microwobbleboard" that FitFlop says encourages activation of the leg muscles.
These are available from a number of companies in a number of form factors: on a belt clip or in the pocket from Fitbit and Withings, armbands from BodyBugg, and even Google has jumped in with a pair of shoes.
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The charity is urging people to put themselves in the shoes of the 127, 000 people in the UK living with the condition and learn more about Parkinson's.
Until you're in those shoes and faced with the decision you really can't judge.
Christie challenged his critics to put themselves in his shoes while dealing with the massive storm, predicting none of them would have done anything differently.
After a brief stint when Buster taking over the position as company CEO goes horribly awry, Michael steps in and fills in the working shoes, with some lessons learned along the way.
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The Swirl study found that while 53% of women have between one and five shopping apps on their smartphones, 76% of the 1, 000 women they surveyed said they prefer shop for clothes and shoes in a retail store, with their smartphones relegated to their pockets and purses.
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The grizzled cook stood with his shoes off, having left them at the door, and with his lambskin hat clutched in his hand.
Ethiopia's comparative advantage in wages, productivity, and natural resources has led the Huajian Group, a Chinese shoe maker, to build a factory in Ethiopia in three months, with two production lines starting in January 2012, exporting 20, 000 pairs of shoes a month and creating some 550 jobs.
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For convenience, my wardrobe is almost entirely black and I mix things up with a collection of shoes acquired over years and continents in a rainbow of colors.
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It took exactly two stops before we got to the first soccer-themed demonstration: the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits showed off the advantages of embedding chips in soccer balls, along with the shoes of the players.
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Congratulates Jon and I hope and Stephen Colbert continue to defend and speak for the sane and competent majority who do not hate, who do not whine, who work hard and empathize with the plight of the countless in the same shoes struggling to figure out how to better the futures of the next generations.
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"The shops in Manchester that were targeted were those with shoes, fashion items and jewellery, people were just out for what they could get, " he added.
Down the path from the Pit is where the Cholos hang out, with their black leather coats and clicky shoes and dark hair in almost invisible nets.
One day she was Marlene Dietrich in a silver sheath, the next Joan Collins in a deep blue gown, the next Carmen Miranda, in nine-inch platform shoes and with three tons of fruit on her head.
One always knows with a tomboy: She is wearing shoes she can run away in.
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