Russia's WTO Accession "Gray" Customs Clearance "Gray"

If we say "an ant" incident, no matter Russia Customs or some merchants still expect to reappear by "more concealment" or "place transfer". market Brilliant, then, with Russia's eighteen years of WTO accession, the space for these expectations will be completely compressed to zero.

Because with the world Trade With the introduction of the WTO rules, the issue of illegal trade such as grey customs clearance will be completely eliminated. "White", "formal" and "safe" will become the key words in the economic and trade exchanges between China and Russia.

　　 "Grey customs clearance" is difficult to stop.

All along, "grey customs clearance" is a difficult thorn in Sino Russian economic and trade exchanges. In recent years, Russia has repeatedly said "no" to the "grey customs clearance", but its fast customs and low tax revenue still make the issue of "grey customs clearance" repeated, and Sino Russian trade is also "not hurt" in the process of "grey customs clearance".

Statistics show that in February 2004, the Russian Ministry of interior police took away the total value of $about 30000000 worth of Chinese goods in the Moscow "Amira" trade market. In March 12, 2005, the Russian tax police forced the Chinese shoes in the "flower and bird market" in the south of Moscow. The shoes mainly came from 20 export enterprises in Wenzhou, reaching more than 100 containers, valued at more than 8000 yuan. In September 2008, the Supreme Procuratorate of the Russian Supreme Procuratorate suddenly seized the goods of the Chinese container business of the Cheel Guizo J J Ki container market, and seized about 6000 containers of goods, weighing about 100 thousand tons, with a value of about 2 billion dollars. This is the famous "ant" incident in the "gray customs clearance" history of Russia in the future.

However, this series of regulatory actions did not bring "white" and "safety" to Sino Russian trade, and even played a counterproductive effect.

The goods delivered at the beginning of the year will not arrive until the end of the year. How can we do this kind of business? "Complained Hong Yinghao, general manager of Jinjiang Hao Xin shoes and garments Weaving Co., Ltd.

Swimsuit is the main product of Hong Yinghao's company's exports to Russia. According to Hong Yinghao, because of the weather factors, the swimsuit has only one month in the Russian sales season, and this short term business opportunity can only be grabbed by "gray customs clearance" procedures. "Now this road is blocked, we can only abandon the Russian market."

Giving up is a choice, but some Chinese businessmen still hold the commodities of "grey customs clearance" to keep on the Russian market. The only difference is that they have changed their positions from "Cheel Guizo J J Ki container big market" to "Moscow" business center.

Although China and Russia have also issued a joint statement on the Moscow meeting between heads of state of China and Russia through the establishment of the sub Commission on Sino Russian government regulation of trade order, they announced the establishment of a customs cooperation sub committee under the framework of the regular meeting of the Chinese and Russian prime ministers, and standardized the issue of "grey customs clearance" from the official level. But after all, the tax revenue and time spent on "white customs" are not borne by every Chinese businessman. There is still a gap between "grey customs clearance" and "total clearance".

　 Thoroughly eliminated after entering WTO

However, the issue of "grey customs clearance", which has been repeatedly banned by China and Russia, has come to a new turn after Russia's accession to the WTO. "High taxes and long customs clearance are important reasons why Russian businessmen are unwilling and unable to go through the" white customs clearance "procedures. But after Russia's accession to the WTO, the issue of" grey customs clearance "will be eradicated, and the" grey customs clearance "will completely withdraw from the Sino Russian Economic and trade arena. Wang Qiu, an Associate Research Fellow of the Russian Institute of modern international relations, said.

Wang Qiu further explained that after joining the WTO, Russia must also organize economic and trade activities in strict accordance with international practices and market mechanisms. At that time, the customs clearance rate of the Russian customs will accelerate, and the efficiency of China's cargo clearance will naturally increase. At the same time, Russia's commitment to lower the import tariff rate after its accession to the WTO can also encourage Chinese and Russian enterprises to adopt formal customs clearance channels, and no longer need to adopt "gray customs clearance" to avoid tax.

According to the data, according to the commitment, after joining the WTO, the average import tax rate of all products in Russia will be reduced from 10% in 2011 to 7.8%. Among them, the average import tariff rate of agricultural products will be reduced from 13.2% in 2011 to 10.8%, and the average import tariff of industrial products will be reduced from 9.5% to 7.3% at present.

Boris Fomin, chairman of the textile industry and light industry business committee of the Russian chamber of Commerce and industry, also told our correspondent that joining the WTO can fundamentally improve the Russian market. More than 50% of textile light industrial products will enter the legal channel from the "gray customs clearance" channel, and trade between China and Russia will move towards a new stage of legal and normative bilateral trade.

Wang Qiu said that with Russia's accession to the WTO, the future trade differences and contradictions between China and Russia can be reasonably adjusted under the framework of the WTO rules.