Russia fights against the United States and Western sanctions against the United States

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The Minister of Economic Development of Russia Reserticov recently pointed out that Russia's "parallel import" strategy adopted to fight against the US Western sanctions is playing an active role. As of July, the total value of goods imported to Russia through the "parallel import" method was nearly 4 billion US dollars and weighing more than 300,000 tons.

Russian government promotes "parallel import" legalization

"Parallel import" refers to the behavior of an importer of a country without the authorization of the right holder who enjoys intellectual property rights in the country to import products in other countries to the country that is legally launched in other countries. This behavior was prohibited in Russia before.

Since Russia launched "special military operations" on Ukraine on February 24, the United States and Europe had unprecedented large -scale sanctions on Russia. A large number of Western companies have announced a permanent or temporary stop in Russia's business activities, and Russia is facing a serious shortage of goods and production materials.

In response to the US Western sanctions, Russian President Putin signed the federal law on March 8 to amend the clauses of the "Russian Federal Civil Code" on trademarks and patent protection, stipulating that Russia no longer recognizes intellectual property and patents of Western countries. In other words, Russia will no longer protect intellectual property and patents in the United States and Western countries.

On June 21, the general meeting of the Russian country Duma (lower council) approved a legal amendment submitted by the Russian Federation government, stipulating that "parallel imports" were legalized in Russia. This legal amendment stipulates that the patent results and use of the brand logo reflected in the "parallel imports" products do not constitute infringement, and Russian companies that do not assume related civil, administrative and criminals without the permission of "parallel imports" products without intellectual property holders permits "parallel imports" commodities. responsibility. On June 22, the Russian Federal Council (Parliament's upper court) reviewed and quickly approved the bill called the "Draft Law of the Russian Federal Parallel Imported Commodity Law".

On June 28, President Putin signed the draft law, marking that the Russian government and society have the right to compete with the "unfriendly country" sanctions on Russia. Russian State Duma President Volokin said that the law helps protect Russia's economy and citizens during economic sanctions, simplify the trade activities of goods on the "parallel import" list, and stabilize the prices of these goods. Zhu Kefu, a member of the Economic Policy Committee of the Russian Parliament, said that the law would effectively restrain imported goods prices related to the behavior of "unfriendly countries".

Russian importers actively implement "parallel imports"

In addition to actively promoting the legalization of "parallel imports", relevant Russian departments have been preparing for the implementation of the mechanism.

On March 29, the Federal Federal Prime Minister Michase Jing signed a government order to authorize the Federal Ministry of Industry and Trade to formulate a "parallel import" foreign product list. On May 6, the Ministry of Industry and Trade announced a list of about 200 brands, covering 50 types of products such as cosmetics, chemical products, clothing, black and non -ferrous metals, and vehicles. For example, in the field of technology and electronic products, the list includes products from many brands such as Siemens, Panasonic, Apple, Intel, Samsung, Dyson, Logitech. The Ministry of Industry and Trade also emphasized that the list will be reviewed every quarter or every two months to increase or decrease according to product surveillance.

Soon after the announcement of foreign commodity lists, the director of the Russian Federal Anti -Monopoly Anti -Monopoly suggested that the Russian "parallel import" mechanism should be expanded to all categories of goods. "This should be a permanent mechanism of the Russian Federation." He said that the merchant will bring the goods to Russia on the premise of obeying all supervision and customs procedures. This will be a civilized business without counterfeiting products.

According to reports, the "Parallel Import" plan is not directly purchased from the right holder, but purchased in the third country. With the completion of the last puzzle of the "Parallel Import" law, imports and exporters or platforms such as Ozon and Yandex.market in the Russian market have announced that they are ready to operate in accordance with the "parallel import" plan.

Yandex.market has created a new department engaged in the "import parallel" business, and has released a number of international procurement tenders to find new supply channels for household appliances, electric tools, electronic products, health products, etc., and expand direct import. It is reported that the first batch of foreign brands that evacuated the Russian market and foreign brands in the field of home appliances have now entered the warehouse of online retailers. OZON senior management said that the company has imported Apple products based on the "parallel import" plan, and does not rule out the future sales of luxury brand products on the website. According to the "parallel import" program after legalization, the sale is no longer limited.

Russia looks forward to "parallel imports" to achieve results

The US and Western sanctions caused the US, Europe, Japan, and South Korea's exports to Russia's goods and services. The EU exports in March fell by 55%year -on -year. In the case of maintaining the original level, Russia has a huge trade surplus. In the first four months of this year, the Russian trade surplus increased by three times year -on -year, a record of more than $ 100 billion. At the same time, Russian citizens are limited to travel abroad, and foreign currency demand is weak. In this context, the market's demand for US dollars and euros is declining, resulting in a sharp appreciation of Russian rubles.

Russia's lubble strong brings adverse consequences, which not only reduces Russian products export competitiveness, but also leads to a decrease in budget revenue of the Russian Federation. To this end, the Russian Federal Government, the central bank, and the economy have called for actively taking measures to promote the return of rubles back to "comfort space". For example, the first Vice Prime Minister Belo Usov said in mid -June that in order to promote Russian economic growth, the "best" exchange rate of the ruble was $ 1 against 70 to 80 rubles. Gref, the president of Russia's largest bank, said at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on June 17 that improving import status and adjusting the economic structure is the "antidote" of the Russian economy that has cured the current "poisoning". He predicts that by the end of the year, the exchange rate will fall to the "reasonable range" of $ 1 to 70 to 75 rubles, and "no measures are taken in the current situation, and the Russian economy takes about 10 years to return to the level of 2021." Because of the US and Western sanctions, many Russian companies relying on imported parts are in a state of suspension of production or facing the dilemma of production. One of the effective ways to get rid of this situation is to reconstruct the industrial chain and supply chain through the "parallel import" import channels. At the same time, by promoting "parallel imports", foreign brands have prompted foreign brands to return to Russia. Only in this way can foreign exchange that is idle and low can be active, and the Russian economy can enter the restoration and growth track.

People from the Russian economic community pointed out that the Russian government originally planned to implement the "Parallel Import" Law at the end of July. Due to the severe situation of Russian imports in the United States and Western sanctions, the situation was severe and improved in June. At present, the implementation of the "parallel import" mechanism has made the Russians look forward to the mechanism's strong means to promote the economic development of the country.

(Our newspaper Moscow, August 11th.

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