“Megamind”
wrote that in December 2015, the general director of the Tuva Energy Industrial Corporation Ruslan Baisarov sent the president a letter proposing “to create an internal e-commerce infrastructure,” which should allow “any manufacturer of high-quality products” from Russia “to enter global markets”, “find your client "and" compete anywhere in the world. "
On December 10, the president endorsed a letter with the wording “review and support”
According to Baisarov, the Internet site should “cover all key world markets” and trade not only with the CIS countries, but also outside the commonwealth, for example, with China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
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“Russian Alibaba”, which Ruslan Baisarov intends to create with the support of the state, may be launched this year on the domain
Nthub.ru . Baysarov will invest in the creation of a trading platform "tens of billions of rubles,"
said RBC businessman.
Despite the fact that Baisarov apparently considers the issue of creating a “Russian Alibaba” resolved, retailers continue to offer their nominations for the role of a national trading platform.
The founder of the largest Chinese online retailer
Alibaba, Jack Ma, also
supported the initiative of Vladimir Putin to create an Internet platform for the export of Russian industrial goods.
Ma hopes that Alibaba will be able to help develop Russian e-commerce infrastructure, as well as take part in creating an e-commerce platform in Russia.
In the fall of 2015,
Yulmart retailer announced the transition from the concept of an online store to an integrated platform with its network of distribution centers and order execution.
The company acquired 3 distribution centers and 32 city centers for order fulfillment, 400 Yulmart Outpost delivery points, 300 vehicles of different tonnage in the fleet for long-distance transport and delivery of goods to customers. “Yulmart” in the near future
plans to fully switch to the marketplace mode of operation, like
Amazon .
Now "Yulmart" is ready to become a base for creating a national trading platform. The retailer sent the corresponding proposal with the concept of development to the Ministry of Economic Development. Other retailers have also offered their services.
Yesterday, February 11, the ministry’s working group held a meeting on the creation of the Internet site itself, which facilitates the export of Russian goods abroad.
“During the meeting, various functions that such a platform could perform were discussed. It was also said about the help in insuring goods, providing mechanisms for their return and reimbursement of expenses, and so on, ”
said Alexey Fedorov, head of the Association of Internet Trading
Companies (
ACIT ),
told Roem.ru.
At a meeting of the working group, the head of the Russian office of
JD.com, Alex Vasilyev, proposed his company for the role of such a platform.
“I offered Mr. Vasilyev to sell JD.com to Russian legal entities, he refused,” comments Fedorov.
In addition, at the meeting, the Ministry of Economic Development proposed introducing profit tax deductions for suppliers-exporters on the online platform being created. According to the ministry, at the moment entrepreneurs of small and medium-sized businesses are not interested in exporting their products due to the difficult and non-transparent procedure of customs clearance and taxation.
To simplify the processing of tax and customs documents, the Ministry of Economic Development suggested allowing confirmation of a zero VAT rate using a postal invoice and creating an automatic mechanism for reconciling exported intellectual property with a list of extremist materials, Izvestia reports.
“I am sure that Russian exporters need two things: simplifying the VAT refund and a faster and more transparent procedure for processing customs documents. As for who exactly could play the role of such a platform - I believe that it can be any Russian company or structure: “Russian Post”, EXIAR export agency, a company created by Ruslan Baisarov, or any large Russian retailer is not fundamentally ", summarizes Alexey Fedorov.
Representatives of the Ministry of Economic Development believe that none of the proposals for the creation of "Russian Alibaba" contained a full-fledged working concept.