Wait-And-See, Pformation, Exit... Electricity Supplier Law Landing, Purchasing To Welcome "New Year"

When it comes to the Spring Festival, it seems that this year is not easy for the professional purchasing agents.

In January 1st, China's first electricity supplier law came into operation. Overseas purchasing agents were incorporated into e-commerce operators. They need to register and pay taxes according to regulations.

Under the new deal, the buying and selling circles have a big reshuffle: some people have refurbished their routines, and want to take advantage of the details when they are not clear; some people are out of their shadows and do not want to bow to the increasingly thin profits; others want to use this way to "wash the white" and hope to win new opportunities in a more equitable market environment.

It seems that at last, the personal purchasing industry, which is once full of scenery, has finally come to the turning point of development.

Is this silent and going into the long winter?

Or do you want to break up and usher in a new spring?

Many people are waiting for the answer.

On the evening of January 4th, Wu Jie walked away from the capital airport without reporting channels, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

Three full packed suitcases, plus carry on luggage, the total price of twelve yuan, thirty thousand yuan cosmetics, has reached the "electricity business law" punishment standard.

"If we hadn't promised our old customers long ago, we would never have taken the risk".

Looking back on the same machine, a "unfortunately" was selected and deducted from the purchasing agent, Wu Jie felt a sudden fear.

The "electricity business law" stipulates that e-commerce operators should register the market participants according to law and fulfill their duties according to law.

As for e-commerce operators, the definition of "electricity business law" is: through the Internet and other information networks, the natural person, legal person and non legal person organization, including the e-commerce platform operator, the operator inside the platform, as well as the e-commerce operators who sell goods or provide services through self built websites and other network services, are engaged in the business activities of selling goods or providing services.

This means that whether it is sold in WeChat's circle of friends or in Taobao's purchasing agency, it will be listed as an e-commerce operator and supervised. The violator will be fined 2 million yuan.

The days of personal purchase depend on "making difference or not paying taxes".

In Wu Jie's view, with the strictness of customs inspection over the past two years, the "winter" of purchasing has already started. Last year, a Taobao shop owner was sentenced to 10 years for buying clothes on suspicion of smuggling and evasion of taxes, which made the industry more vibrant.

The new law is likely to become the last straw to crush many individual purchases.

Once, red eye flights from Jeju Island, South Korea to Beijing often filled, and most of the passengers were "human meat purchasing".

According to Wu Jie observation, this time on her flight, the purchase is very few.

Under the new deal, most buyers are waiting to see.

Wu Jie said that she had to rest for a while after finishing the bill. On the one hand, she did not want to worry about going through the customs any more. On the other hand, she had to weigh whether the future would continue.

Sun Lu, who is an accountant and part time purchasing agent, has many hobbies this year: painting.

"In circles, it is possible to circumvent WeChat inspection by hand drawing instead of commercial maps,"

Sun Ludi showed his slightly rough work, and laughed, though the writing method was not good, but the guests were old users.

At the beginning of the promulgation of the "electricity business law", it was asserted that this sentence was sentenced to "death penalty" for informal channels such as friends circle purchase and purchase.

But some purchasing agents soon found that the new rules were not perfect in some details.

For example, the "sporadic small pactions" mentioned in the definition is ambiguous, and the electricity suppliers in this category belong to the scope of exemption registration.

In addition, from now on, the supervision of relevant departments is still unknown.

These have become the "buffer" in the eyes of purchasing agents, and they have been relied on for their frequent practice and continued operation.

"Look at the style, please click the order, and do not involve sensitive words such as bank, pfer, payment, order and brand name when asking for the micro letter. If possible, try to communicate with your voice as much as possible."

From January 1st onwards, purchasing agents began to spread such "friendship tips" in their circle of friends, and soon reached a tacit understanding with their guests.

Sun Ludi, an old customer and regular purchasing cosmetics, is familiar with Li Xiaoning.

See a description of "a brown bottle, especially moisturizing, first use water and use it, a component called" two crack yeast lysate extract "cosmetics, she almost did not hesitate to say the name" a brand of small brown bottle essence ".

As for other purchases to avoid supervision and special information released in English, as long as there are hand sketches, Li Xiaoning can instantly understand.

Sun Ludi said frankly that he knew very well that after the implementation of the "electricity business law", informal management was not a permanent solution, but it was hard for her to abandon the high return on behalf of the office workers.

What's more, the bulk of goods hoarded last year, after a round of sales promotion at the end of the year, is still enough to support for half a year.

"There will always be countermeasures and countermeasures."

Sun Ludi is not resigned to it. Anyway, he has promised his guests that in any case, I will stick to the last second.

"I can't bear to say goodbye, and I have to say goodbye."

A few days ago, Li Muzi put off all the goods in the Taobao store, leaving only such a sentence in the front page of the shop.

Over the past five years, her store has bought popular goods from local shopping malls and buyer shops in Italy, and sent them back to China by mail.

According to Li Muzi, like her, many shipments are usually chosen by qualified import and export trading companies or professional customs clearance companies, so that commodities can be passed through customs quickly and smoothly in the case of tax exemption or less tax, so as to pursue greater profits.

However, since the second half of last year, customs inspection has continued to increase, and customs clearance has become increasingly difficult. Many purchases are difficult to deliver to the country, and her own stores are becoming increasingly unsustainable.

At the most, more than 20 Chinese friends around Li Muzi were doing shopping, and now nearly 1/3 decided to give up.

"In the long run, as the electricity business law is becoming more and more perfect, even if we cooperate with customs clearance companies, there will be more and more inspection and full payment of taxes when entering customs."

Li Muzi said that the price of goods after paying taxes is almost the same as that of domestic counters, which makes purchasing agents meaningless, not to mention other legal risks.

"Instead of taking risks, it is better to change careers.

If you have time to buy something for your friends or old customers, you should be obliged to help. "

In the second years of studying in France, He Shanshan started buying on behalf of his friends.

In 2018, the monthly water flow reached about 700000, enough to maintain her life in a foreign country.

Unexpectedly, from November last year, she returned to China's domestic products through "human flesh", with 4 customs officers being deducted and repaid.

Recently, I found a friend who helped me to bring back the goods, and even people with goods were deducted. The value of luxury goods and a small amount of cosmetics worth more than fifty thousand yuan was nearly ten thousand yuan.

According to He Shanshan, if there is no case, the first time is to pay taxes, and the second is to confiscate.

It is not clear whether the new deal will bear more legal consequences after landing.

A few days ago, after repeated consideration, He Shanshan announced in the customer base to withdraw from the buying circle.

The implementation of the "electricity business law" made her afraid to find friends to take the goods, afraid to let the other party take the responsibility of breaking the law; the customs examination became more and more profitable and made her feel ungrateful.

"The big thing is to get a job, or to buy a bunch of cross platform buyers, anyway, always able to feed themselves."

He Shanshan said.

Some people are reluctant to go out of the field, some people unload the burden on their backs and move forward lightly.

Xu Mingkai, owner of Taobao, has been looking forward to the landing of the electricity business law.

In his view, although this will allow the purchasing agent industry to reshuffle, resulting in a small number of scattered small buyers gradually leave, but at the same time will provide a certain scale of the opportunity to purchase, to promote the pformation of small and micro enterprises engaged in cross-border electricity providers, so as to achieve greater development.

What he expected more is the normative role of the new deal in the whole purchasing industry.

Like many consumers, Xu Mingkai also hated fake products.

Watching some shops, the prices are very low, the fake goods are sold in full swing, while the goods in their stores are not enough, but he is heartache and helpless.

"The survival space of genuine purchasing is squeezed very much by the sale of fake goods or the sale of fake products."

Xu Mingkai said that if the "fake purchasing" is constrained by the new deal, the industry environment will become clear and clear, which is good for us.

Recently, Xu Mingkai has been consulting with the industry and Commerce Department and decided to formally set up a company and pay taxes himself.

"It's better to get out of the grey zone, or at least not to panic."

Zhang Jing is the "doorway" purchase in the eyes of peers.

Having worked in the United States for more than four years, she has signed a price agreement with the local buyer shop, which can be purchased at a lower price.

Zhang Jing believes that the "electricity business law" is not as good as some people in the circle are interested in spreading.

Eliminating the irregular "small purchase" in the industry is in her view conducive to the healthy development of the market.

Now, Zhang Jing has already registered a company in the local area and has handled the license, and so on, after the domestic related procedure consummation, will continue to open the business.

(some of the characters in the text are pseudonyms).