Peter Mandelson, the European Union's Commissioner for Trade, has launched a potentially controversial review of anti-dumping measures that increasingly backfire against the bloc's own companies. Mr Mandelson is keen to increase the flexibility of the dumping regime after his curbs on Chinese textiles last year led to a glut of bras and trousers piling up on the EU's borders. More recent anti-dumping tariffs on cheap leather shoes from Asia have hit European companies that manufacture shoes in Vietnam.
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