Ban on businessmen, dealers and import imposed
- 31.07.2009, 16:52
In the near future any legal entity would be able to buy only Belarusian goods.
The decree the Council of Ministers have been working on, is to cause complete dying-out of private entrepreneurs who are employed in the trade, and such business activities as serving as intermediary, besides, grey import and re-import would be excluded, AFN informs.
The decree 991 by the Council of Ministers says: “Legal entities regardless of their constitution can buy goods at the territory of Belarus (except the goods which buying is regulated by other legal acts of Belarus) from own funds, borrowed funds and funds of country’s and local budgets from suppliers who are manufacturers of goods, and also from their official sales representatives”.
It means that now any goods at the territory of Belarus, no matter was it imported or manufactured at the territory of the country, is to be bough only from a manufacturer or from its official dealers.
“The lists of official sales representatives are approved by corresponding country’s organs of state administration and other state bodies subject to the government of Belarus, regional executive committees, Minsk city executive committee, the National Academy of Sciences basing upon statements of suppliers, with an attached list of documents confirming the economic feasibility of buying goods from official sales representatives, with an agreement with deputy Prime Ministers of Belarus according to their spheres of work,” the document explains.
The lists of official dealers haven’t been published so far, and it is hard to say when they would be rubberstamped. However the document comes in force from the moment of its being published.
It is obvious that in the near future any legal entities regardless of their for of property would be able to buy goods produced only in Belarus, before the lists of dealers are approved.
There would be no use thinking about businessmen engaged in trade, many wholesale companies, subjects re-importing Belarusian goods, and engaged in grey import, as well as importers of goods from Russia.
According to officials, the aims of the document are undoubtedly noble: to make the expenditure of funds effective, and to pursue a single financial policy at the territory of Belarus, taking in consideration the factors of the global financial and economic crisis. But in fact, “an economic North Korea” is being created in the centre of Europe.