Quanzhou Shoe Makers Have Been Battered By Russia, But Have No Choice But To Embrace The Road.

After many hardships, Quanzhou's trade with Russia is rebounding sharply.

Get through the normal export channels

Quanzhou's exports to Russia are somewhat tasted.

Data show that in the first quarter of this year, compared with 2009, Quanzhou's exports to Russia rebounded sharply, reaching 46 million 290 thousand US dollars, or even more than 90%.

This is a long delayed growth.

According to the relevant person in charge of Quanzhou Municipal Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau, Quanzhou's exports to Russia continued to slump in 2009, with a negative growth of nearly 20 percentage points.

In the analysis of the cause of significant negative growth, the person in charge said that, on the one hand, because of the impact of the financial crisis, the Russian economy suffered a setback, affecting the consumption capacity.

More importantly, the Russian official's crackdown on Chinese businessmen weakened the export confidence of quotient to Russia.

Russia's attack on Chinese businessmen is a topic that Quanzhou can not avoid exporting to Russia in the first two years.

In September 2008, Russian officials raided the Asian market in one of the two major markets in the Cheel Guizo J J Ki market on the grounds of cracking down on "gray customs clearance", sealing up the daily necessities of shoes, clothing, socks and so on in Chinese warehouses. Among them, hundreds of enterprises were involved in Quanzhou, and about 400 million dollars were seized.

In June last year, Russia completely closed the Cheel Guizo J J Ki market.

According to Wang Huaitie, President of the Minnan chamber of Commerce in Quanzhou, Russia's attack on Chinese businessmen is mainly aimed at "grey customs clearance". However, the commodities that Quanzhou has entered into Russia from the normal way is also implicated. "Because the Cheel Guizo J J Ki market is the main distributing center for Quanzhou commodities after entering Russia. After the market is closed, the export commodities of Guangdong Province do not know where to go for a while."

It is precisely after repeated setbacks that Quanzhou officials began to guide enterprises to enter the Russian market through normal channels. On the one hand, they adopted support measures to export Russian goods through normal channels; on the other hand, began construction of carriers. In May last year, Quanzhou became the 5 main partners of the "Wu Fu Xing import and export company" jointly invested by Russia and quotient, making it the main platform for spring enterprises to enter Russia through normal customs clearance channels.

This platform includes logistics companies and custom brokers company, which are shipped to Russia by the Russian businessmen through this platform, from Quanzhou enterprises, customs declarations in China, shipping to Russia, and customs declaration at the Russian customs, until the withdrawal of sales and sales in Russia is fully in line with the normal customs clearance channels of Russian relevant regulations.

After the establishment of Wu Fuxing, it immediately became an important platform for Quanzhou's exports to Russia. Data show that last year, Wu Fuxing exported more than 50 million dollars. In only half a year, it entered the top ten of Quanzhou's self export market. In the first quarter of this year, the export volume of Wu Fuxing increased significantly, and its total export volume had exceeded 20 million dollars.

"Access to normal export channels is the main reason for the sharp rebound in exports from Quanzhou to Russia."

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While the export to Russia rebounded, quotient was fighting in Russia to replace the past.

A few days ago, he went back to Fujian in Quyuan, Russia. In addition to attending the world min commerce conference, another purpose was to discuss with Quanzhou enterprises the joint operation of factories in Russia.

Prior to that, Wang Guangyuan has invested in a commercial city in Russia. After the closure of the Cheel Guizo J J Ki market, the commercial city became a gathering place for many quotient merchants.

Before that, most of the spring traders in Russia were mainly trade in shoes and clothing.

With the advantage of Quanzhou's local shoes and clothing manufacturing industry, they placed orders for local enterprises and sent them to Russia for sale.

Wang Huaitie believes that quotient tries to sell the semi finished products made in China to Russia for final processing and to label Russian made labels for sale, which is a good idea.

However, the biggest problem facing Quan enterprises in Russia is the Russian labor policy. According to the Russian policy, Russia has been reducing the quota of foreign workers in recent years, and is only willing to issue short-term visas. "This has caused some difficulties for the stable production of enterprises in Russia."

Against this background, it seems to be a good choice to build a Russian factory on the platform of the Russian supplier.

The relevant person in charge of the Quanzhou Municipal Bureau of foreign trade and economic cooperation believes that to directly occupy the Russian market, it is a general trend to set up factories directly in the locale. However, local fountains are not familiar with Russia. In this case, it will be a good choice to cooperate with the suppliers in Russia.