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Wenzhou Officials Arrived In Russia Last Night To Negotiate "Seizure Of Warm Shoes".

2008/10/22 0:00:00 89

In the evening of September 11th, Russian officials, on the ground of combating "grey customs clearance", attacked the Asta (ACT) market in Moscow, sealed off Chinese merchants' shoes, clothing, socks and other daily necessities in the warehouse, with a value of about $2 billion 100 million.

Among them, there are more than 400 goods in Wenzhou, about 1 billion US dollars are being withheld.

This is undoubtedly a "cold winter" for the shoe leather industry in Wenzhou.

Especially those smaller shoe factories, the choices they face will be survival or death.

如何化解在俄温商的燃眉之急？

The government of Wenzhou has been actively seeking solutions to this problem.

A few days ago, the Wenzhou municipal government has sent a deputy mayor to Beijing to report to the Ministry of Commerce. The government official who was led by the director of the Wenzhou foreign trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau and the deputy director of the provincial foreign trade and Economic Cooperation Department arrived in Moscow last night and will negotiate with the Russian side, hoping to reduce the loss to Wenwen in Russia.

这次彻查很多鞋企老板觉得非常突然

The Russian market is the largest commodity wholesale market in Russia. Since 90s, a large number of Chinese businessmen including Wenzhou shoe traders have been gathered here.

The Russian seizure involving more than 2000 enterprises in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Fujian, Shandong, Sichuan and other provinces is the largest amount of seizure in history.

On the second day of the seizure, a Zhejiang businessman telephoned the express from Russia, saying that overnight, Russia dispatched a large number of police forces to seal up a large number of large warehouses. The goods they had stored in them were all buckled, and they could only be collected by customs clearance certificates.

对于这次彻查，很多鞋企老板觉得非常突然。

Yu Anlin, President of the Federation of overseas Chinese in Zhejiang, Russia, said: "this is stricter than ever before, and the scale is also several times larger.

The shoe industry association of Wenzhou said that once things go against the right direction, smaller shoe factories may suffer heavy losses or even collapse due to the broken chain.

Wenzhou businessmen do not intend to abandon the Russian market. This is the national level to crack down on the grey customs clearance. The Prime Minister of Russian Federation signed an order to prohibit foreigners from engaging in retail business in the sales stalls and markets.

Although the "ban on commercial order" came into operation as early as April 2007, it has not been implemented because of its controversy in Russia, so that many businesses in China continue to use the "grey customs clearance" method in Russia.

"Grey customs clearance" refers to a way of customs clearance handled by the exporters in order to avoid complicated customs formalities, and the matters related to customs clearance are handled by specialized customs clearance companies.

According to insiders, for a long time in the past, China's exports of Russian light industrial products mainly rely on Grey customs clearance, and many enterprises do not have complete procedures.

According to media reports, most of the stalls run by Chinese people have been closed in the market, and the market has become extremely depressed.

"In spite of the fact that the Russian businessman has suffered a lot of losses, he has a mental state and is still busy. He has no intention of giving up the Russian market and temporarily using other warehouses and goods with normal customs clearance."

Yesterday afternoon, Yu Anlin, who had just arrived in Russia, said that the trip was aimed at helping the Russian and Zhejiang businessmen to coordinate the settlement of the seizure, and is still visiting the local government departments of Zhejiang businessmen and Russia.

各方努力应对“打击灰色清关”

On the day of the closure, the Chinese Embassy in Russia took urgent action to negotiate with Russia, and the Ministry of Commerce sent a special trip to Russia to consult with Russia about the solution of the incident.

In September 23rd, the Ministry of commerce took the lead in convening Zhejiang, Sichuan, Fujian, Shandong and Jiangsu provinces and other foreign trade departments, associations and some related enterprises to make a special trip to Wenzhou to hold a forum on the export business of the Ministry of Commerce.

In October 16th, the shoe leather industry in Wenzhou was to convene a consultation meeting on the closure of the Russian market in the Asian market. The more than 200 people will be crowded in the hotel hall. The most talked about is how to pick up the seized goods and how to avoid similar incidents in the future.

Yesterday afternoon, the Wenzhou shoe leather industry association responsible person said that they will maintain a unified opinion with the central government and rely on the government level to solve this incident.

At present, the Wenzhou enterprises involved are anxiously awaiting the outcome of the process.