It is officially impossible to introduce American, Japanese and European cars worth more than $50,000 in Russia, but the emphasis in this statement should not be on the word “impossible”, but on the word “official”. The AvtoVzglyad portal found out how Russian sellers elegantly solved the problem of importing cars loved by domestic motorists from abroad.
The introduction of restrictive restrictions, including a restriction on imports of premium cars, started on February 24 and has not gone away to this day. Quality turned first into quantity and then into dull attempts to “suck something out of your finger”. It remains to be seen who faced more hardship — Russian customers or homegrown producers — but the bans still apply. Europeans, of course, to a lesser extent, have already found 333 options to get around them, but Americans have already found them completely. Well, almost completely.
The blocking of money transfer channels immediately “canceled” the entire business of car importers from the United States: money from Russia does not reach the American seller, and if by some miracle the payment is lost, the receiving bank immediately returns it, not to mention deduct her commission. There was and always will be a cash option, but it is quite difficult and expensive to carry bags of money on the plane, and the likelihood of “unnecessary questions” is extremely high. So the other companies offer to arrange the logistics and customs clearance, but paying the seller is the customer’s job. And only a few went looking for solutions. Found it.
The first option that surfaced was predictably Kazakhstan, which publicly declared its independent opinion, increasing the transit of “banned” to Russia under the guise of European applause. In business, such an arrangement is called win-win: the buyer gets what he wants, and the local entrepreneur earns. Everyone wins.
The prices have increased – a link has appeared again, which also deserves – the waiting time has become a little longer. But the focus on the booming traffic of used cars to Central Asia has left many deals frustrated for frankly far-fetched reasons. The nut was tightened quite quickly. Georgia and Armenia, which regularly supply the domestic market with various types of used goods, were also included in the distribution. We had to look for a new direction.
It turned out to be Turkey: Sultan Erdogan soon realized that the crossroads was a profitable venture, so he resolutely embarked on the path of “no sanctions”, directing the economy strictly towards its wealthy northern neighbor. It was up to the technology: to level the money trail. But even here there were no problems: cargo from Russia is sent to Turkey, and the money for it is not transferred to Russia, but to the accounts of local companies, which already spend the money received without any restrictions on the purchase of cars in the United States. States. Cars “drift” directly to the Russian port. Settlement between the sender and the buyer of cars in the Russian Federation already takes place on the plane of Russian banks. classic.
The introduction of restrictive restrictions, including a restriction on imports of premium cars, started on February 24 and has not gone away to this day. Quality turned first into quantity and then into dull attempts to “suck something out of your finger”. It remains to be seen who faced more hardship — Russian customers or homegrown producers — but the bans still apply. Europeans, of course, to a lesser extent, have already found 333 options to get around them, but Americans have already found them completely. Well, almost completely.
The blocking of money transfer channels immediately “canceled” the entire business of car importers from the United States: money from Russia does not reach the American seller, and if by some miracle the payment is lost, the receiving bank immediately returns it, not to mention deduct her commission. There was and always will be a cash option, but it is quite difficult and expensive to carry bags of money on the plane, and the likelihood of “unnecessary questions” is extremely high. So the other companies offer to arrange the logistics and customs clearance, but paying the seller is the customer’s job. And only a few went looking for solutions. Found it.
The first option, which was on the surface, was predictably Kazakhstan, which publicly declared its independent opinion, increasing the transit of “banned” to Russia under the guise of European applause. In business, such an arrangement is called win-win: the buyer gets what he wants, and the local entrepreneur earns. Everyone wins.
The prices have increased – a link has appeared again, which also deserves – the waiting time has become a little longer. But the focus on the booming traffic of used cars to Central Asia has left many deals frustrated for frankly far-fetched reasons. The nut was tightened quite quickly. Georgia and Armenia, which regularly supply the domestic market with various types of used goods, were also included in the distribution. We had to look for a new direction.
It turned out to be Turkey: Sultan Erdogan soon realized that the crossroads was a profitable venture, so he resolutely embarked on the path of “no sanctions”, directing the economy strictly towards its wealthy northern neighbor. It was up to the technology: to level the money trail. But even here there were no problems: cargo from Russia is sent to Turkey, and the money for it is not transferred to Russia, but to the accounts of local companies, which already spend the money received without any restrictions on the purchase of cars in the United States. States. Cars “drift” directly to the Russian port. Settlement between the sender and the buyer of cars in the Russian Federation already takes place on the plane of Russian banks. classic.
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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