The Ministry of Industry and Commerce has proposed increasing customs duties on the import of electronic products. Among the recipients of the letter are the consortia “Computer Engineering”, “Telecommunication Technologies”, “Lighting Engineering”, the association of companies “Electronic Engineering”, the state corporations “Rostec” and “Roscosmos”, writes Vedomosti.
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The ministry explained that it is too early to talk about plans to increase by a specific amount. The department will study the issue together with interested companies and the Ministry of Economic Development.
First of all, the possibility of increasing duties on product categories in which the volume of national production is sufficient to cover market needs will be considered, added the representative of the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
Russian manufacturers support the idea, but retailers are categorically opposed. The tariff hike will help electronics assemblers, but could raise prices for imported electronics, market participants say.
In the last two years, products worth more than 70 billion dollars were imported into Russia through parallel imports: last year the Russian smartphone market amounted to 681 billion rubles and the number of devices sold reached 30.7 million, First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov said at the press conference. end of 2023.
In April 2024, Russian manufacturers proposed to the Ministry of Digital Development to ban the parallel import of smartphones and laptops. The organization also applied for preferential loans for the production of Russian equipment.
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Source: RB
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