The initiative group from RSKO decided to appeal to the Government of the Russian Federation with a request to cancel the mandatory labeling of shoes and clothes

An initiative group from the Russian Union of Tanners and Shoemakers prepared a letter addressed to the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Mishustin, requesting the abolition of mandatory labeling of shoes and clothes and collects signatures from market participants in support of this initiative.

The letter says that the mandatory labeling of shoes and clothes in the Russian Federation, which was introduced in order to combat smuggling and counterfeit products on the Russian market, will not be able to solve the problem, since there are already many ways to bypass the built-in labeling system.

“On the Internet today they openly propose to label, using various schemes, any shoes, including contraband, and clothing products at bargain prices. CRPT - a private company issued 1,6 billion shoe marking codes to all comers, providing 3 years in advance of all smuggled and counterfeit goods under the guise of leftover shoes in warehouses. The mark "Honest Badge", pasted on smuggled shoes, actually legalizes it. And this discredits in the eyes of the law-abiding business and the population such “traceability” of goods due to labeling. Commercial firm CRPT cannot fulfill the functions of the state in curbing smuggling; it is aimed at long-term profit from marking, selling cash registers, means of identification by its partners. The declared marking goals cannot be fulfilled, ”the letter says.

Labeling will lead to more expensive shoes, it will become an additional burden on the business of manufacturing and trading enterprises that have to spend on the purchase of equipment, servers, cash desks, identification tools, stamp seals, as well as additional hiring of employees, according to RSKO.

Representatives of the Union also indicate that the instructions of the President of the Russian Federation to combat smuggling, the data of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, the Federal Customs Service, the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia following the meeting on measures to develop light industry in the Russian Federation dated August 24, 2017 are not respected: “Volume smuggling in the market does not decrease, from the figures announced by the President of 33% or 860 billion rubles. Almost all smuggling is freely imported from Kazakhstan through a transparent border. ”

The letter says that labeling will ruin at least 10% of small businesses, worsen the financial condition of enterprises and hard-to-live populations. The authors of the appeal are aleatherg to cancel the decision to introduce mandatory labeling of shoes and clothes in the Russian Federation.

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The appeal was initiated by the President of the Russian Union of Leatherworkers and Shoemakers General Director of Chrom JSC Myakunova N.N., Vice President of the Russian Union of Leatherworkers and Shoemakers General Director of Unichel Shoe Company JSC Denisenko V.S., Vice President of the Russian Union of Leatherworkers Andrunakievich A.G., chairman of the board of directors of JSC “Russian leather”, IN Surin, general director of the Russian Union of tanners and footwear workers.

At the moment, RSKO is collecting signatures of market participants supporting this appeal.

According to the Director General of the Russian Union of Kozhevennikov and Shoe Workers Alexandra Andrunakievich, a rather large number of letters with signatures of market participants that support the proposal to cancel the labeling, many letters from representatives of regional retailers come to the mail of RSKO.

“The situation in the shoe business has been further aggravated by the coronavirus epidemic and the economic crisis. This question is now very relevant. We work in retail, and have already “touched” the marking on March 1 - there were a lot of difficulties that were beyond our control, if it had not been postponed until July 1, we would have simply lost the spring-summer season, ”comments one of the regional retailers, a company from the city of Cheboksary.

Alexandra Andrunakievich believes that the cancellation or postponement of the marking is an important, but not the main measure to support the light industry in the current situation. “The labeling project is really implemented in such a way that the created system cannot protect the market from counterfeiting. We have repeatedly said that traceability is the main thing in the marking system, and as a result, the emphasis was placed on the possibility of public control. About 2 billion marking codes have been issued, despite the fact that shoes in our country are sold annually no more than 600 million together with slippers, she says. - Nevertheless, I must say that until now not all RSCO participants support the idea of ​​abolishing the marking, opinions are divided. It is also worth noting that we are now working on creating a list of measures that can support the Russian light industry in the current economic situation, and the issue of canceling or postponing mandatory labeling is just one of the points of this program. "