Duties for electronics can reduce

Already this year, import duties on digital video and audio equipment may decrease. The Government Commission on protective measures in foreign trade and customs-tariff policy will consider this issue at a meeting in the second half of March.

However, given the accompanying initiatives of the State Customs Committee, household appliances are unlikely to be cheaper. After all, customs officers tightened the conditions for its import in Russia as much as possible . However, for legal suppliers, a decrease in duties is certainly good.

According to Vedomosti , we are talking about reducing bets from the current 20-15% of the customs value of imported equipment to 15-10%. The draft resolution contains 15 codes of digital equipment, which provide for a reduction in duties. It is assumed that customs payments will be reduced, for example, for televisions with liquid crystalline and plasma screens, digital DVD players, digital video cameras and audioplayers, tape recorders with a digital sound recording.

According to the Marquetologist, Polan Alexander Moshnin, this year from 1.5 to 2 million DVD players will be sold in the Russian market by about $ 300 million, of which about 60% will have to import. A decrease in duties can lead to an increase in the volume of officially imported equipment by two to three times.

The general director of Polar, which produces digital DVD players and televisions with digital technology elements, Eduard Polyakov believes that in general, a decrease in duties can affect the market positively, since it "does not be of a collapsible nature." “The most important thing is that payments are really charged, and not pass by customs,” he emphasizes. Mikhail Kuchment, marketing director of the M. Video network, in turn, in turn, promised that a decrease in duties would lead to a reduction in retail prices.