Participants in the online trading market warned of the risk of increased costs and complexity of foreign online purchases due to the update of the EAEU Customs Code, writes RBC .
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Several players in the online trading market, including representatives of the largest marketplaces, spoke about the risks of foreign purchases. According to one of them, in the near future, member countries of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU; includes Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan) must ratify changes to the Customs Code of the union, due to which the processing of foreign purchases may become significantly more complicated and may increase their cost, and the import of some goods will become completely impossible.
The changes involve separating cross-border e-commerce goods into a separate category and introducing declarations for them. E-commerce operators and specialized customs warehouses will appear.
The main difference from the current situation is that now purchases by Russians abroad, made through marketplaces, are imported into Russia as goods for personal use. After changes to the Customs Code of the EAEU, the concept of “goods for personal use” will apply only to things that a person imports or exports across the border in luggage or that is sent to his address by another individual by mail or carrier.
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