Russia is getting rid of Western imports and refocusing on Asia
Thanks to a simplified declaration scheme in Russia, some foreign brands have been replaced by others.
The head of the Federal Accreditation Service, Nazariy Skrypnik, spoke about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, in an interview with Izvestia.
“Last year was unprecedented in terms of challenges for Russian imports. Businesses had to build supply chains from new manufacturers. The main request of importers was to simplify the import of goods. In March 2022, the Ministry of Economic Development developed business support measures, one of which was a simplified declaration scheme. Rosakkreditatsiya has made a new service for registering such declarations, thanks to which the period for importing new products has been reduced from 20–30 to six days.
The first such declaration was registered on March 21 last year. A couple of months after the sanctions were imposed, others took the place of the departed foreign brands. Judging by the number of certificates registered by Rosaccreditation, we can conclude that some brands have been replaced by others, and the number of foreign manufacturers has increased. Russian manufacturers are also taking the place of departed brands—their number has increased by 17–20%,” Skrypnik said.
According to him, based on the analysis of documents in the registers, it can be said that “the range of goods has actually been restored.”
In addition, he clarified which countries are now Russia’s main trading partners for imports.
“At the moment, the import of goods into the Russian Federation mainly comes from the countries of Southeast Asia and the Middle East. If earlier importers registered certificates for goods mainly from Europe and the USA, now more than 30% of such documents are registered for goods from China,” the head of the Federal Accreditation Agency emphasized.
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