South Korean Mask Purchase Insider: Factory Location Starts At A Price For Chinese Buyers

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The war epidemic has entered a critical stage, and the masks are in short supply, which has become an indisputable fact. To protect supply, the electronic commerce platform has opened the global mode of finding goods. Many electric business practitioners have responded to billion power. In Korea, the price of a mask has risen from 3 yuan before the festival to 18-20 yuan. Some factories are sitting on the ground, selling at random, and some distributors are hoarding.

　　 Some factories hide their stock masks and bid for auction.

"Korean masks have started to rise in price since the Spring Festival. The price of forward products is about 3 yuan. Now it costs 18-20 yuan for each piece, and the overall price is 7 to 8 times. Of course, a small number of prices are very exaggerated, 20 or even 30 times. One of the leading cross-border e-commerce platforms in China is responsible for introducing the way to billion state power.

Not only did the price go up too hard, but the goods could not be delivered. She said that at the beginning of the Spring Festival, the masks of Korean factories were priced at a price per day, but they were still within acceptable limits, and the orders placed ahead of schedule could still be brought back. When the outbreak of a relatively large outbreak occurred later, the factory had abandoned the contract, concealed the stock, sat on the ground and held the goods.

"Every day a bunch of people holding cash in front of the factory to get goods is basically a state of hand delivery. In the early days, everyone went into the factory to pick up the goods. Later, they did not let in because they did not want you to know how many stocks there were. The factory will ask you how much you want. After the assessment, will you open the price to see if you can accept it, accept it or ask someone else to see if anyone can get a higher price. These people are totally disrupting the market, and the information is completely opaque, "she said angrily, when it introduced its docking Korean mask supply chain.

The contract has been cancelled after being signed.

Another well-known marketing agency responsible person told the billion power, many purchasing masks in South Korea are also faced with these problems. "Those factories do not tell you stock and production capacity, because they can lift prices higher. A few days ago, if buyers in China could get cash in cash, how far did they go in these two days? The factory knows that there are 10 distributors in China to buy the goods, so that everyone can go to auction. Before signing a contract, it will not be counted. Whoever gives the high price will give it to you, that is, you can not buy it with your money. In fact, this is obviously punishments. "

　　 Chinese buyers are being run away and cheated.

The contract is no longer in use. Many Chinese buyers have been put in dove, and some even have not paid back the deposit.

"The biggest problem now is that many of the big channels and manufacturers are not reliable. They have already collected money, and later someone has given a higher price to others." Zhu Shaozhong, the chairman of Ningbo's excellent diapers, who has been focusing on the import of diapers, such as Kao Wang and Wang Wang, told the billion power. "We paid 800 thousand orders for masks from a supplier in Korea the other day. As a result, other companies doubled their prices and we were put in dove. It is useless to finalize them with them. Through this epidemic situation, we can see some unconscionable enterprises, which is not worth the cooperation at all. On the whole, there are problems in every link of the entire supply chain, and prices have been driven up in a mess. "

Billions of power know that during this period some people were doing cattle in the middle, some of them could not deliver goods, and they ran away with millions of money. Some factories require buyers to pay the money without giving them a look at the goods.

Screenshots are provided by people familiar with the matter.

In fact, many people in South Korea are Chinese experts. They are very aware of the psychology of Chinese consumers and dealers, and they also know delivery and so on. Many people think that the current situation is because there are many experts in the market, but in fact, the factories in Korea are playing tricks on them. Only the Koreans are making money, making money in China, "one industry insider said.

There are also some unscrupulous distributors who take the opportunity to drive up prices. Zhang Shuai, founder of the net red cat, told the billion power. "We know that during the new year, some people rushed directly to the South Korean hoarding masks with 20 million yuan to intercept orders from others at a slightly higher price, and then sold them at a high price. These people are getting more and more. These days, this phenomenon is still very serious. " He appealed to hope that the domestic small and medium-sized electronic business platform and the red man organization could unite to boycott the expensive masks collectively and offer their own strength for stabilizing prices.

Zhang Shuai is currently operating a net red MCN agency in China, and its net red is mainly distributed in such channels as the short video. After the outbreak, Zhang Shuai has been helping net red fans buy masks and other protective appliances. Because of the tight supply of domestic goods, they had to turn to overseas.

The South Korean government is still hoarding.

It is understood that the price of South Korean local masks has also been greatly increased, the original price of 3 yuan or so in the South Korean airport mask has changed to 20 yuan. According to people familiar with the matter, Korean people can not buy masks on the mainland at present, but it is not because they are robbed by China, but because the local factories do not release them, and local businesses want to buy them too.

In view of the soaring prices of anti epidemic materials such as masks and serious hoarding behavior, the South Korean government decided to strengthen market supervision and severely crack down on hoarding of protective products during the epidemic prevention.

According to the Yonhap news agency, the Ministry of finance of Korea said that the government will implement the circular on prohibiting the hoarding of sanitary masks and disinfectants from February 5th, and the violator will be sentenced to 2 years or 50 million yuan (300 thousand yuan). The prescribed period of validity will last until April 30th. According to the circular, the sales of masks and disinfectants of producers and sellers exceed 150% of their sales in the previous year and are renewed for more than 5 days. This situation will be regarded as hoarding.

In addition, in order to prevent a large number of outbreaks of domestic masks and other outbreaks in Korea and send more than 1000 masks and hand sanitizer to foreign countries, or the value of which exceeds 2 million won (120 thousand yuan), the simple customs clearance process will be transformed into a formal customs clearance process. When customs clearance is found, if the suspect is suspected of hoarding, the customs will take legal measures against it.

Informed sources told the billion power that it was precisely because of this new announcement that 20 million of those who had hoarding masks earned money in the past few days, but now they are afraid of being discovered, and they are afraid to stay in Korea without coming to China. "It will be very sad later."

Faced with legal sanctions, there are still many factories in the wind. Some factories do not ship in the daytime, choose to trade secretly at night, and some continue to change the delivery place to prevent being caught. A cat and mouse game on masks is staged in Korea.

　 The mask produced in Korea is not irreplaceable.

With the resumption of factories after the holidays, China's masks are rapidly recovering. As of February 3rd, the daily output of mask in 22 key provinces of the country has reached 14 million 806 thousand, and the capacity utilization rate has reached 67%. In February 6th, the China Consumers' Association and the China Textile Business Association jointly said that some enterprises have started 7 days, 24 hours and full capacity production, and a production line has increased to 3 times the original capacity. The original large number of non medical mask manufacturers have perfected the processes of purification and killing bacteria. They can produce normal medical masks after passing the inspection. The relevant departments of the state have already opened a fast examination and approval channel for production qualification.

The international community is also actively contributing materials to support China's fight against the epidemic. As of noon on February 5th, 21 governments of the Republic of Korea, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Hungary, Belarus, Turkey, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Egypt, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, Trinidad and Trinidad contributed to China. Epidemic prevention and control materials. In many countries, friendly people from all walks of life have also taken the initiative to provide support for China to fight against the epidemic through various means.

At the same time, China's e-commerce platform is also actively purchasing in other countries outside Korea. Ocean wharf co founder Cai Hua believes that there are three main reasons why most Chinese buyers choose to buy masks in South Korea: first, the speed of logistics is relatively high from China; second, the output of Korean factories is relatively large, and there are more local factories, while most of them are Chinese factories; third, the trade between China and Korea is relatively developed, and many electronic business platforms and Koreas There is a lot of communication among countries, and the penetration of Korean goods such as cosmetics and daily necessities in China is high. The past trade situation has decided that South Korea is the first priority for us to consider.

However, she stressed that cross border procurement will never go to one country alone, and the mask produced by South Korea is not irreplaceable. "Today, whether Europe or Southeast Asia, as long as the standard masks have been gradually entered the Chinese market, so the mask produced by South Korea is definitely not the only choice, it can be completely replaced. People who sell high priced goods will hit themselves in the back."

It is reported that the international port, which is under the ocean terminal, fully mobilizes the resources of all sides, from all aspects of international distribution, customs clearance and domestic transportation, to subsidize tens of millions of yuan to open free international direct mail channels for epidemic prevention materials and materials, so as to ensure the fastest delivery of materials and provide protection for the people of Wuhan and all the users in the country. Recently, masks and other materials purchased from Spain, Holland, Canada, Japan and Thailand have entered the bonded warehouse one after another. Cai Hua said, "we started buying around the world very early, and later we were also facing consumers. Before Korea's price skyrocketing, we have already started purchasing Europe. From the beginning of the beginning of communication, now there are goods coming in. We do proprietary business, subsidize freight costs on platform, and return goods purchased overseas to Shanghai bonded warehouse, so that we can deliver the most efficient service to consumers.

The Chinese government strengthens the market supervision, protects the supply of electronic platforms, and crackdown on illegal sales.

For the control of quality and price of masks and other materials during the epidemic period, the Chinese government also issued relevant regulations to strengthen supervision. In February 5th, the State Administration of market supervision and Administration issued an urgent notice to crack down on price violations in the field of prevention and control of materials such as masks during the period of epidemic prevention and control, and put forward three requirements on the market price regulation in the field of production and control of materials such as masks, and so on.

First, find out the bottom line, speed up the investigation, and effectively improve the pertinence and effectiveness of price supervision in the field of production and control of masks.

Second, we should strictly and strictly follow the law and strictly crack down on price violations in the field of prevention and control of materials, such as masks. We should not only strengthen the price supervision and control of sales departments such as masks, but also strengthen the supervision of the whole chain price behavior of production equipment and raw and auxiliary materials.

Third, positive initiatives should be taken to guide enterprises to take the initiative to shoulder social responsibilities and participate in social co governance.

While strengthening supervision, China has not only kept pace with the production of materials such as masks, but also actively deployed overseas imports. Since the outbreak of the epidemic, the General Administration of Customs has implemented fast customs clearance to speed up the supply of medical supplies, and set up special reception windows and green passageways at various customs clearance sites throughout the country. The customs can register with the competent authorities after registration of the epidemic prevention and control materials donated abroad.

In February 5th, the General Administration of Customs disclosed the relevant situation of imported epidemic materials since January 24th. A total of 171 thousand batches of 377 million kinds of epidemic prevention and control materials were issued, which were worth 1 billion 216 million yuan. From the category of imported materials, 77.3% of them are protective products, with 367 million items worth 940 million yuan. These materials include 328 million masks, 3 million 854 thousand protective clothing, 620 thousand goggles and 453 thousand medical devices, worth 70 million 700 thousand yuan.

At the same time, the domestic e-commerce platform is also actively taking action. In the donation and protection, the line will not be closed during the Spring Festival.

According to incomplete statistics of billion state power, more than 100 donations of electricity providers have been donated, most of which are donated by 100-1000 yuan. Among them, Alibaba group set up a 1 billion yuan special fund for medical supplies to become the largest supplier of electricity in the industry. In addition, the US group and donkey mother platform also donated billions of dollars. The Jingdong, Suning, and ocean wharf, in the form of donated medical materials, serve the front-line medical staff. Pharmaceutical masks, Zhen Kun lines, 1 drug nets, rebate nets, honey buds and other platforms donated more materials to protect masks. In the case of strict sales of masks, Taobao, Jingdong, Suning, many spells, foreign ports, and other platforms have been notified to businesses that they are not allowed to rise in price. If there is a sale or abnormal price increase, they will be dealt with for the first time, and they will be prosecuted for legal responsibility.