Clothing purchasing is seriously frustrated forced price increases: more than 50 yuan tax!

Business News Agency September 3 The latest report from the China Electronic Commerce Research Center shows that as of the end of June this year, the domestic overseas purchasing market transaction volume reached 7.82 billion yuan.

Customs tightened the customs duties on overseas postal items on September 1. The import tax exemption for postal items fell sharply from 500 yuan to 50 yuan. The implementation of the New Deal has had a significant impact on the apparel purchasing market.

"According to the relevant provisions of the "Customs Law," China distinguishes different types of supervised objects such as goods and articles for entry goods, and applies different management requirements. Items have the characteristics of "non-trade" and cannot be sold or leased after entering China. It is easy to see that goods purchased overseas are profitable and will enter the trade field again, so goods purchased overseas are not goods but goods. For goods, regardless of their value, they must pay taxes according to the regulations. This is consistent." Interpretation of the General Administration of Customs. From this we can see that the purchasing clothes belong to the ranks of the goods.

"Postal goods that are subject to an import tax of more than RMB 50 shall be taxed in full on the value of the goods." "Articles that apply to the second-tier 20% tax rate mainly include textiles and their finished products."

Then if the purchase of clothes exceeds 50 yuan, then the excess amount must be strictly paid 20% of the tax.

There are currently three major categories of purchase channels for overseas purchasing companies. First, overseas friends and relatives will purchase and mail back to the country. Second, orders will be placed directly from overseas shopping sites. Express delivery will be used for the demolition of retail sales. Third, the use of flight attendants, tour guides, foreign company employees, and international students will be convenient, and personal delivery will be provided. Source of supply.

“The amount of self-used items taken by overseas resident passengers abroad is 5,000 yuan*** (including 5,000 yuan, the same below); non-resident passengers carry their own goods to be left in the territory, with a total value of 2,000 yuan* Within ** (including 2,000 yuan, the same below), the customs shall grant tax exemption, and the single variety shall be limited to self-use and reasonable quantities, but ** products, alcoholic products, and 20 kinds of commodities that should be taxed by the state shall be handled in accordance with relevant regulations. Airline stewardesses, tour guides, foreign company employees, and international students are more convenient for personal convenience.

For the first two types of channels, the rise in tariffs on personally-mailed items will increase the terminal retail price, which will certainly affect business.

Most of the clothes purchased from abroad are luxury clothes, and the cheapest purchasing clothes are also around 300 yuan. Then the cost of purchasing is an inevitable result. Can calculate detailed accounts.

The new policy was implemented first. The average selling price of a CK series casual clothing in China is about 390 yuan. Through overseas purchasing, plus the US commodity tax and mailing costs, the cost is only 270 yuan. If you do not calculate the commission, you should calculate the profit by 10%. You can earn 27 yuan.

After the new policy, the tariff entry point for overseas postal items plunged from 50 yuan to 50 yuan, and for a 270 yuan garment, 270-50=220,220*20%=44, and the cost was 44 yuan more. Then unless the purchasing party raises the price, there is no profit at all.

After the tariffs were raised, the online overseas purchasing industry that won customers through price advantage was impacted. Either increase prices or exit the market. On the Chongqing market, from the end of last month to now, there have been more than 20 purchasing companies to wait and see.

The tax deduction for postal items has been substantially reduced. The most affected are online clothing sellers who have earned the difference or purchasing fees for “outside purchasing”. Entered the "buying" word search on Taobao, suddenly jumped out of 38,304 stores, most of which belong to "overseas purchasing." Many of these purchasing sellers are overseas students and domestic relatives and friends. They are very sensitive to the customs policy implemented on September 1. Before the implementation of the policy, some clothing sellers carried out a certain inventory. However, to know that the style of clothing is updated very quickly, coupled with the seasonal attributes of clothing, no one can predict the market situation. The inventory of clothing is still relatively small. So prices have become the choice of many clothing purchasing sellers.

In addition, the cost is naturally lower because the personal cost of carrying goods is more limited. Many clothing purchasing stores are already working hard to develop personal shipping channels to try to resolve the current trend of price increases. Some industry insiders even believe that the tariff adjustment will end the era of huge profits of overseas purchasing, and flight attendants, tour guides, foreign students and other people will make a small fortune in this trend.