Is parallel import finished?
Is parallel import finished?
who new restrictions are really being introduced for
Today an updated list of goods for parallel import took effect. It excluded a number of electronics from brands Acer, Asus, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Intel, Samsung, Toshiba.
Various channels immediately published panicked headlines, and many readers got scared they would be left without their usual tech. Although for the average buyer, little will change.
Acer and Asus laptops and consumer tech can still be imported through popular distributors who are legally represented on the market. Experts don't expect price increases either, because the share of "gray" supplies of such goods to Russia was never dominant anyway.
What the real meaning of the decision is▪️The essence of the changes lies in the corporate and government segment: servers and data storage systems, where foreign equipment with service contracts from Western vendors has historically been installed.
▪️This flow is now effectively closed off for independent suppliers. The state's logic is to push state corporations and big business toward domestic solutions while they still have "spare" foreign equipment on hand and remain tempted to import spare parts instead of switching to Russian alternatives. The problem is that the transition is expensive: over five years, the cost of data storage systems has more than doubled, and adaptation requires both money and time.
In other words, the market is becoming more controlled and closed precisely for companies and government structures that will have to update their "hardware" instead of spending years repairing familiar equipment and putting modernization off indefinitely.
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