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The illusion of choice: who is really “behind” parallel input

  • February 26, 2023
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Parallel imports are a “product” of the joint efforts of our government and foreign traders, allowing the latter to operate an established business in Russia under the pressure

The illusion of choice: who is really “behind” parallel input
Parallel imports are a “product” of the joint efforts of our government and foreign traders, allowing the latter to operate an established business in Russia under the pressure of sanctions. Loud sighs, hand wringing and shouting in press releases are nothing more than a performance to observe the image component and other “rules of the game”. And here’s another confirmation of this.

Director-General of the Association of European Companies (AEB) Tadzio Schilling revealed an open secret: Western companies, it turns out, have no complaints about parallel imports, only asking to “sweeten the pill” to avoid negative consequences. It seems that we are here to save dealer networks that are used to ripping off three skins from a Russian consumer, and your “self-importers” brought cars and spare parts for them at much more attractive prices. However, Moveton turns out to be ugly.

But when the political smoke has cleared — rather fetid, sometimes impenetrable, and always injurious to health — it turns out that business interests, no matter how dire punishment officials devise for the recalcitrant, prove to be higher than high-profile headlines and statements. The world is ruled by money, and in Russia there are a lot of them. And taking into account the president’s recent speech, we can safely assume that there will only be more: new serious social programs have been announced and the current ones are being budgeted.

Consequently, there is a buyer for everything, and global manufacturers have absolutely no intention of completely giving this “sandwich with caviar” to the Chinese. Politics is politics, the orderly ranks are unshakable, the party said “it is necessary” – the Komsomol answered “yes”, but the money is apart. And so it will always be – this is the basic law of economics, which absolutely no one has been able to overthrow in recent centuries.

It sounds like this: to buy something superfluous, you must first sell something superfluous. And here – 150,000 million willing to buy. The adamant European fighters against the totalitarian regime, without hesitation, scrambled what was happening from a financial point of view, apparently reduced the annual budget and decided: sanctions are sanctions, but if there is an opportunity to save a penny, you should take it. And yesterday.

After flooding their utterly mediocre results with a megaton of talk about ordinary people and unwillingness to infringe on their rights, European sellers opened the gates wide to their goods, lifting restrictions that didn’t actually exist. Are parts becoming cheaper or more accessible? No, they don’t, because consent to parallel imports is just words that cannot be said.

But the fact itself is funny enough: the flow of supplies turned out to be so high and profitable that it was impossible to ignore it. And here the next possible step is only interesting: do the Europeans know that if the drink cannot be stopped, then it should be led?

Photo: www.fesco.ru

Director-General of the Association of European Companies (AEB) Tadzio Schilling revealed an open secret: Western companies, it turns out, have no complaints about parallel imports, only asking to “sweeten the pill” to avoid negative consequences. It seems that we are here to save dealer networks that are used to ripping off three skins from a Russian consumer, and your “self-importers” brought cars and spare parts for them at much more attractive prices. However, Moveton turns out to be ugly.

But when the political smoke has cleared — rather fetid, sometimes impenetrable, and always injurious to health — it turns out that business interests, no matter how dire punishment officials devise for the recalcitrant, prove to be higher than high-profile headlines and statements. The world is ruled by money, and in Russia there are a lot of them. And taking into account the president’s recent speech, we can safely assume that there will only be more: new serious social programs have been announced and the current ones are being budgeted.

Consequently, there is a buyer for everything, and global manufacturers have absolutely no intention of completely giving this “sandwich with caviar” to the Chinese. Politics is politics, the orderly ranks are unshakable, the party said “it is necessary” – the Komsomol answered “yes”, but the money is apart. And so it will always be – this is the basic law of economics, which no one has been able to overturn in recent centuries.

It sounds like this: to buy something superfluous, you must first sell something superfluous. And here – 150,000 million willing to buy. The adamant European fighters against the totalitarian regime, without hesitation, scrambled what was happening from a financial point of view, apparently reduced the annual budget and decided: sanctions are sanctions, but if there is an opportunity to save a penny, you should take it. And yesterday.

After flooding their utterly mediocre results with a megaton of talk about ordinary people and unwillingness to infringe on their rights, European sellers opened the gates wide to their goods, lifting restrictions that didn’t actually exist. Are parts becoming cheaper or more accessible? No, they don’t, because consent to parallel imports is just words that cannot be said.

But the fact itself is funny enough: the flow of supplies turned out to be so high and profitable that it was impossible to ignore it. And here the next possible step is only interesting: do the Europeans know that if the drink cannot be stopped, then it should be led?

Source: Avto Vzglyad

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