The New Starting Point For The Development Of Russian Apparel Trade

From gray customs clearance to white customs clearance, it is

The rise of folk customs clearance companies turned into gray customs clearance

The Russian folk customs clearance company began to operate in the form of charter tax, package tax and so on.

There are two kinds of customs clearance companies in Russia: one is the official White customs clearance company; the other is an unofficial grey customs clearance company.

After the collapse of the former Soviet Union in 90s, the supply of goods in Russia and CIS is extremely short.

To ease the tension of light industrial products, the Russian government has agreed to import large quantities of cheap consumer goods from the markets of neighboring countries including China.

At that time, in accordance with the official Russian White customs clearance, the process was cumbersome and the productivity was complex. The imported goods in summer often pported to Moscow in winter. Such low efficiency and long cycle seriously affected the living requirements of local people.

Therefore, the Russian government has adopted a special way to allow customs clearance companies to do import business for shippers, providing logistics and customs binding, and implementing one-stop service.

Thus, the Russian customs clearance company began to operate and opened the gray customs clearance with the way of "charter tax, bag and bag tax", so that a large number of cheap Chinese goods entered the Russian market continuously. At that time, the cultural environment of the Embassy in Beijing came into being, and soon formed a professional window for private trade with Russia.

Over the years, the management level of Ya Po Road business area has been continuously improved. It has developed from ordinary market rent shop to modern office store.

The scale of business circles has also increased significantly. Now there are 6 large market with a single area of more than 20 thousand square meters, with an estimated area of 500 thousand square meters and nearly 6000 merchants.

At the same time, commodity trade also has a qualitative leap -- from more low-grade products to middle and high-end products, from OEM products to independent brands, and the rapid development of Ya Po Road.

Today, the market of the Po Po Road has been in line with the international market. Its peers also have a high reputation. However, with the series of problems in the past two years, the market and merchants of the market have realized that the problem of gray clearance must be properly solved.

On the one hand, grey customs clearance procedures are simple, volume is not limited, quick and convenient, it has played a catalytic role to meet the needs of the Russian market; on the other hand, the grey customs clearance can not get the formal customs declaration form of the relevant departments, which is easy to cause economic losses.

Judging from the operation of grey clearance trade in the market for more than 20 years, the grey customs clearance has both advantages and disadvantages for both China and Russia.

In terms of advantages, the business can be packaged to the freight forwarders near Ya Po Road according to the requirements of purchasers. Transportation, customs clearance, commodity inspection and other links are handled by freight forwarders and customs clearance companies. The procedures are simple, the volume of goods is unlimited, and it is quick and convenient, which has played a catalytic role in meeting Russian market demand.

At the same time, the price of grey customs clearance is 30% lower than that of white customs clearance, and the cost of goods is low. Therefore, Chinese merchants' products have high price competitiveness in the Russian market.

Over the years, the grey customs clearance trade of Ya Po Road has also formed an industrial chain, including textile and garment design, production, raw materials, excipients, pportation, market development and management.

According to statistics, there are only about 100000 people engaged in the industry in China alone.

Thanks to the interests of all parties, the grey customs clearance continued to exist today.

From the point of view of malpractice, the shippers who go through gray customs clearance can not get the normal customs declaration form of the Russian customs.

In operation, the shipper seldom knows what company the freight forwarder entrusts is, and what customs name, price and manner of Customs reporting it is.

A large number of goods become suspected smuggled goods, the risk is very high.

Grey customs clearance companies entered the Russian market with low price and low volume.

Usually, the cargo owner pays all the expenses including customs duties and freight charges according to the requirements of the freight forwarding company. The freight forwarder pays the payable fee to the customs clearance company.

For the Russian government, the grey customs clearance has resulted in a large loss of receivable taxes.

Under the condition of gray customs clearance, all parts of commodity procurement, pportation and sales are settled by US dollar cash and free exchange rate. There is no participation of international banks, and exporters do not need to export verification, export rebates, nor do they require manufacturers to provide value-added tax invoices.

In the gray customs clearance trade, once the authoritative departments have rectified the market order, the owners will not be able to provide the customs legal documents, which will cause the goods to be largely sealed up by the customs, or even be identified as illegal products, and they will be confiscated or destroyed.

According to incomplete statistics, the economic losses of Chinese businessmen have reached tens of billions of RMB due to the current customs clearance.

The early grey customs clearance was approved by Russian customs and carried out smoothly.

Now that Russia's economy has been developed, business is flourishing, and goods are more abundant, Russian customs has intensified its efforts to crack down on Grey customs clearance, and grey customs clearance has become a bottleneck restricting private trade between the two countries.

White customs clearance gradually strengthens merchants should adapt to new environment.

Grey customs clearance came into being in a very special period, and has survived for more than 20 years since the Sino Russian trade system.

Gray customs clearance enables many middle and low-income families in Russia to get good quality and cheap Chinese textile and clothing, and get tangible benefits.

In recent years, in the case of Russia's substantial increase in the tariff rate of imported consumer goods, grey customs clearance has played an important role in Sino Russian private trade.

For example, with a container.

For clothing, for example, if you go through the white customs clearance, you have to pay 100 thousand dollars, while the gray clearance is only 70 thousand dollars, which is reduced by 30%.

Therefore, grey customs clearance is favored by many merchants.

But at the same time, many markets in the area have realized that the key issues in the development of the trade are the customs clearance, the lack of clearance and the high cost will seriously affect the quality of the trade.

We know that the Russian climate is cold, cotton production is not developed, light industry is underdeveloped, and the cost of clothing products is very high. China is a big producer of textile and clothing, and has obvious comparative advantages.

In recent years, the grey customs clearance is fast and slow.

The target market of Ya Po Road in Russia, if the local market "cold", then the market will be "fever".

In the second half of last year, due to various reasons, the closure of the Ismail market in Russia resulted in a loss of more than 20 billion yuan for Chinese businessmen, and some individual businessmen even lost their fortune.

To this end, the Chinese government and the Russian government have negotiated and resolved to minimize the losses.

In October 13, 2009, the Customs General Office of China and Russia signed the memorandum of understanding on regulating the order of customs clearance, marking the official launch of Sino Russian customs cooperation.

At the beginning of this year, the two governments decided to conduct customs clearance training courses in Shanghai by the General Administration of customs, and study the relevant policies and procedures of customs clearance so as to pave the way for further improvement of the white customs clearance business.

Since the beginning of this year, the Russian White customs clearance has increased and the number of grey customs clearance has been reduced. The white customs clearance instead of the grey customs clearance has become the trend of the times. In the face of this situation, how can the merchants of the elegant road business adapt to this change?

First, we must register companies and conduct standardized operations.

According to the requirements of the white customs clearance, as an international market access, the business of the trade of the Po Po Po Road in Russia must be registered and operated.

The first is personal identity problem. Some people are stuck in business in Russia and have no work permit. Two, the company is not standardized or has not yet obtained the local business license. Three, the commodity entry is not standardized. Most of the commodities that enter the Russian market from the albus road are still classified as grey customs clearance, no purchase and sale contracts; four, the operation of funds is not standardized, and many domestic businesses have not yet settled through the bank settlement in the Russian capital business; five, the operation of the businesses is not standardized, and the phenomenon of oral credit sale often occurs, causing bad debts to happen continuously. The six is the operation of the consignment companies is not standardized, for example, the Russian side withholds certain goods and the value is very high. If the shipping companies fail to repay, they will run away. But at present, most of the dealers in Russia are not standardized, hiding several aspects.

In the face of the above problems, only registered companies can conduct regular operations before they can be effectively avoided.

Second, we must go through white customs clearance and legitimate trade.

In the early days of Russia's opening to the outside world, the merchants of the Beijing road entered the market. The grey customs clearance trade produced many large and small "door to door" and "dot to point" cargo consignment companies in Beijing. They, according to the requirements of foreign businessmen, would only wait for goods to be pported to the designated warehouses or locations in Russia when the goods were cleared by foreign businessmen and foreign shipments.

However, the businessman must recognize the current economic situation, that is, the white customs have begun to strengthen.

Although there are still some problems to be solved in the enhancement of white customs clearance, the trade speed of the Po Po Road has obviously declined, and some merchants have been able to go through customs in the helpless circumstances and even through third countries.

However, in order to develop in the future, the customers of Ya Po Road should learn the normal operation of the white Customs on the one hand, and make sure that they can ship out and adapt to the change. On the other hand, they should also proceed with the gray customs clearance cautiously, do well in the trade of goods in the pitional period, and jointly take part in the customs clearance and freight forwarding Association to avoid the risk of grey customs clearance.

Third, it is suggested that powerful businessmen should invest in Russia to establish factories or establish brand operation companies, so as to realize the pformation from commodity output to capital export.

The trade between Russia and Russia is basically a simple commodity export. If we still have gray customs clearance or part of the white customs clearance, we may be severely attacked by the Russian government's market consolidation at any time.

With the support of the two governments, we can implement the development strategy of "going in" and build a large industrial park in Russia, build a large market, or cooperate with Russian companies to become a place of origin. The problem of grey customs clearance can be solved naturally.

Fourth, it is suggested that ya Bao Road, with the support of the local government, actively organize to learn from the developed countries, innovate the development ideas, create the international textile and clothing hatching Industrial Park, and gradually form the headquarters base, trade display base, business base, and introduce international first-class designers, create international brand of enterprise, pform into product design and research and development center from simple textile and clothing trade, and greatly increase the value-added of products.

At that time, the white customs clearance may be more competitive internationally, and the trade with Russia will be better and better.