Brussels, 22/08/2005 (Agence Europe) - In a letter sent last week to the European Commissioner for trade, Peter Mandelson, Adolfo Urso, Italian vice minister for productive activities, called for the imposition of provisional antidumping measures by next autumn at the latest on Chinese shoe imports. In his letter quoted by the Italian ANSA agency, Urso affirms that without such measures, the European shoe industry “now appears destined to disappear” faced with the massive imports from China 'and from Vietnam). According to Urso 90,000 jobs are in danger in Italy following the 15,000 job losses of 2004. Adolfo Urso made the following appeal, “We must give small and medium-sized enterprises real responses they need to this competition on markets that are far from being fair”.