They believe that e-commerce in Russia should be regulated separately, without mixing with normal trade and imports of goods for personal use. He stated this in an interview RIA News Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Customs Service Ruslan Davydov.
According to the official, Russian customs officers have been carrying out relevant studies in the field of the Eurasian Economic Commission for about 5-6 years and the studies have reached the final stage.
Davydov noted that e-commerce is a new type of commerce where goods cross the border but people do not. According to him, it is wrong to classify them as goods for personal use. The head of the Federal Customs Service emphasized that it is necessary to clearly separate these concepts by regulatory means in order to avoid confusion with ordinary trade.
In mid-September, it became clear why marketplaces did not want it pay “Russian Post”. The largest Russian online retailers such as Ozon, Wildberries, SberMarket and others, spoke He harshly criticized the initiative of the Ministry of Digital Development to make an infrastructure payment in favor of Russian Post. According to the bill, large online stores will have to pay 0.5 percent of their quarterly turnover to Russian Post; companies stated that this would actually negatively impact their profitability.
Previously in Russia was recorded growth of online business.