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Wenzhou Footwear Industry Is Facing "Cold Winter"

2008/10/23 0:00:00 93

On the evening of September 11th in Beijing, Russian officials raided the Asta (ACT) market in Moscow on the grounds of cracking down on the "gray customs clearance" and seized the commodities, such as shoes, clothing, socks, and other daily necessities in Chinese warehouses. The value of the goods was about US $2 billion 100 million.

Yesterday afternoon, the reporter contacted Yu Anlin, President of the Federation of overseas Chinese in Zhejiang, Russia.

Yu Anlin said that almost every Chinese businessman in the Wenzhou market has lost money, of which more than 400 of them are involved, and the amount involved is worth about 1 billion dollars.

　　溫商遭遇一記“悶棍”

At 2:10 p.m. on October 16th, Howard Johnson hall, four floor, Vanward Howard Johnson Hotel, held a meeting on the theme of "Wenzhou shoe leather industry to deal with the closure of Russia's Asia market" meeting, which brought more than 200 people.

Russia's seizure is undoubtedly the content of their conversation.

"It's like a stuffy stick, and the shoes we export are paid in taxes."

A shoe manufacturer in Ouhai said that the value of the shoes seized in Russia amounted to about 4000000 yuan and the loss was very large.

The Asian market is Russia's largest commodity wholesale market. Since the 90s of last century, it has become a gold rush for Chinese businessmen and a large number of shoe dealers in Wenzhou.

The Russian seizure involving more than 2000 domestic enterprises, involving Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Fujian, Shandong, Sichuan and other provinces, is the largest amount ever seized.

According to the insiders, more than 400 shoe leather enterprises involving Wenzhou are mostly smaller shoe factories. Once the incident is developing in an unfavorable direction, some smaller shoe factories may suffer heavy losses or even collapse due to the broken chain.

A shoe manufacturer in charge of our city says that the biggest problem they encounter now is the formalities.

Russia not only requires formal customs clearance procedures, but also requires leasing contracts with the warehouse of the Asst market, registering a company locally, and invites Russians to be accountants and accountants.

This is very difficult for a small business to start a small business.

　　有關(guān)部門積極奔走

After the incident, the municipal government and the foreign trade department attached great importance to it.

Chen Hongfeng, vice mayor of Beijing, took the lead, and rushed to the relevant departments of the Municipal Bureau of foreign trade and economic cooperation and the shoe leather industry association to report to the Ministry of Commerce.

In September 23rd, the Ministry of commerce took the lead in convening Zhejiang, Sichuan, Fujian, Shandong and Jiangsu provinces and other foreign trade and economic cooperation departments, associations and some related enterprises.

Wen Shang, a Russian businessman, said that on the day of the seizure, China's embassy in Russia took urgent action and made representations to Russia, and the Ministry of commerce also sent a special trip to Russia to consult with Russia on the resolution of the incident.

"We need to hold talks next, and we believe that with the help of government departments, we can always minimize losses."

Since April 1, 2007, the Russian government has promulgated a series of new policies, including banning foreigners from engaging in retail operations in the open market, which has seriously affected tens of thousands of Chinese businessmen.

However, due to the fact that there is a lot of controversy about this policy in Russia, specific measures have been delayed.

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

Reporters interviewed a number of shoe companies that suffered losses. Although the trend of seizure is still unclear, most people do not intend to abandon the Russian market.

Mr. Wang, who has worked hard for many years in Russia, said that giving up is impossible. In the future, we can solve the worries of the future by standardizing the operation of the market.