The Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia proposes to amend Decree No. 719 of July 17, 2015, which contains criteria for recognizing any product manufactured in Russia as domestic.
Currently, in order to obtain Russian status and be included in the register of the Ministry of Industry and Trade (GISP), products and goods must meet a number of requirements, in particular, score a number of points according to a special system. Points are awarded, among other things, for the percentage of technological and production operations performed in Russia.
However, according to Vedomosti, it is proposed to change these criteria from July 1, 2024. There will be indulgences for Belarus: materials and components from there will be able to become Russian, provided that at least 20 percent of the work is carried out in Russia during their creation. And documents on Belarusian production of materials (raw materials) and components (parts, assemblies and aggregates) and on production and technological operations are equated to those issued in Russia.
The initiative of the Ministry of Industry and Trade essentially pursues two goals. The first is to increase the number of companies that can supply components to manufacturers of high-tech devices in Russia. There are not so many domestic production facilities in this area for technological sovereignty in Russia yet. The second is to allow the use of joint developments of scientists from the two countries in Russian products.
But experts note that so far there is no mechanism in Russia to verify the origin of materials and components that will be imported under the guise of Belarusian ones. These may well be Chinese components of not the highest quality, which may negatively affect the technological industry in Russia.
At least one such scandal has already occurred. Instead of computers assembled in Russia with domestic boards, devices in which there were no declared Russian system units and other parts participated in and won tenders in public procurement. Pseudo-domestic devices entered the register of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, received high scores there after examination by the CCI and ended up in the "Department of Information Technology and Communications" of St. Petersburg and other government institutions.
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