The Association of Retail Companies (Akort) proposed to expand the list of goods of the light industry to be labeling. Reports about it TASS.
We are talking about shirts, objects of clothes made of artificial fur, clothes from felt, rascoats, blouses, sports and ski suits, jumpsuits, jackets, jackets, sweaters and cardigans, shals, scarves, ties and cervical headscarves.
In the organization they explained that the sellers are forced to simultaneously trade marked and unmarked goods, and this complicates work and leads to additional costs. Consumers cannot visually determine, include goods to the list of marked or not, in connection with which they can make an appeal of violation, whereas there is actually no violation.
From January 1, a mandatory labeling of a number of light industry goods was introduced in Russia. Without labeling is prohibited to sell products from genuine leather or leatherette, knitted things of machine or manual knitting, coat, jackets, windbreakers, bedding and table underwear and so on.
In April, the Ministry of Industry Created recommendations for the definition of new categories of goods for which the Russian government can introduce compulsory labeling. As a matter of ideas, two conditions should be respected simultaneously. First, the rise in prices for products after the labeling should not exceed the maximum permissible value for six years. Secondly, the balance of income and costs associated with the expansion of labeling, for all market participants, must be positive.
Earlier it was reported that digital marking of relatively cheap goods would lead to the rise in price costs and affect consumers. According to the General Manager of the Henkel division in Russia and the CIS Sergey Bykovsky, any measures related to the application of additional labeling will lead to the rise in the cost of production processes.