According to the annual statistical report of the Spanish Footwear Industry Federation, there were 2,073 footwear manufacturers in Spain in 2007, a decrease of 9.4% from the previous year; the total number of employed workers was 30,715, a decrease of 8.37% from the previous year; a total of 108.4 million shoes were produced that year. pairs, a year-on-year decrease of 8.37%, with a total value of 1.906 billion euros, a year-on-year decrease of 7.46%; exports were 101.16 million pairs, with a total value of 1.892 billion euros, and the average unit price of exported shoes was 18.63 euros, an increase of 2.6% over the previous year; imports were 352 million pairs, with a total value of 1.752 billion euros. In euros, the average unit price of imported shoes was 4.97 euros, a decrease of 10.29% from the previous year. China is the largest supplier of imported shoes to Spain. In 2007, Spain imported 257 million pairs of shoes from China, with a total amount of 601 million euros, an increase of 21.41% and 4.38% respectively over the previous year. The average unit price was only 2.34 euros, a decrease of 14.03% over the previous year. . Since Spain exports a small amount of shoes to China, the annual report does not list specific values. According to statistics from the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade, Spain exported 6.37 million euros of shoes to China in 2007, accounting for 0.33% of Spain’s total exports.
In the first nine months of 2008, Spain exported 82 million pairs of shoes, with a total amount of 1.466 billion euros, an increase of 2.2% and 6.2% respectively over the same period last year; it imported 299 million pairs of shoes, with a total amount of 1.519 billion euros. China is still the largest supplier of Spanish shoe products, accounting for 72% of its total imports, totaling 215 million pairs, with an average unit price of 2.37 euros. It is worth noting that among all China’s exports of shoes to Spain, only 8.3% are leather shoes, and the growth rate of both quantity and value has dropped significantly: in 2007, the value and quantity of China’s footwear exports to Spain were respectively higher than Annual growth was 21.5% and 4.4%, while in the first nine months of 2008 these two figures were only 1.5% and 1.8% respectively. Similarly, according to statistics from the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade, Spain’s footwear exports to China in the first three quarters of 2008 totaled 8.11 million euros, accounting for 0.52% of its total exports.
