Overseas Purchasing Luxury Brands Will Face Rising Prices

Recently, a short notice of 300 words issued by the General Administration of Customs has made overseas buyers and shopkeepers "chest stuffy".

Overseas purchasing charges increase

According to Director Liu, director of Ji'nan customs post office, before the promulgation of the new regulations, the Customs General Administration's stipulation on the limits and the exemption of personal belongings in the incoming and outgoing mail is that the personal articles sent or sent to Hong Kong and Macau are limited to 800 yuan (the following are all: RMB), and the allowance is 400 yuan; the personal articles sent or sent to the above areas are 1000 yuan each, and the exemption amount is 500 yuan.

That is to say, take the make-up water purchased from the UK for 200ml as an example, the tax payable for each bottle of make-up water is 50 yuan.

In the past, since the exemption amount was 500 yuan, shopkeepers still enjoyed tax exemption by sending 10 bottles of make-up water by way of personal mail.

Taobao, who is a buyer of over 4 years of purchasing, said that according to the price of the British Royal post office, the price of every 1kg item to China is about 7 pounds, and the postage of 10 bottles of make-up water is 14 pounds, which is equivalent to 140 yuan, which is about 14 yuan per bottle of make-up water.

However, the new announcement reduced the tax allowance to 50 yuan.

This change makes the seller have to reconsider whether the purchase is a small package, or a large package to pay customs duties.

Profit reduced buyer's pfer

Taobao seller Doudou has calculated an account. If small package is sought for tax-free, it means that each bottle of make-up water or one or two red ports will need to be packaged separately, which is obviously impossible for high international postage charges.

If you pay a duty in a large package, it means that every piece of cosmetics should be paid according to the duty paid list of entry passengers' luggage and personal postal items, that is, perfume, lotion, foundation 50 yuan, essence 75 yuan, small lip balm, nail polish, lipstick, mascara and so on between 20 yuan and 50 yuan.

Mr. Sun, a member of the Ji'nan customs office at the post office, said that the new regulation meant that for the buyers and sellers, the freight, customs duties and purchase commission were required to be paid. In the three calculation, the domestic buyers may need to pay more than 100 yuan for all kinds of expenses.

This part of the cost is hard to pass on to consumers.

"Purchasing from abroad is always risky. It may also be bought by a shopkeeper for a fake. If the purchasing price is almost the same as the domestic price, why buy it instead?"

Smile, a white-collar worker keen on purchasing cosmetics.

But if the seller takes the responsibility, it will directly affect the revenue.

Chen Haoyue, another seller of Taobao's purchasing agency, even said that he had recently stopped buying, because the profit margin was too small.

"Live direct purchase" ushering in good progress

However, there are also some buyers who use the way of "live direct purchase" and carry the goods in customs, which is not affected by the new regulation.

Taobao seller "sz_lzhg" specializes in purchasing Hongkong, once a week, walking through customs.

So the whole process is not related to the issue of mail.

She said: "the new tax rate rules are good for us to buy on behalf of Hongkong, so that many of the competitive advantages of the British and American purchasing agents are weakening, and the renminbi is also constantly revalued, which means that the goods we get are low in cost, and the same money can go into more goods and prices will have an advantage."