| Contract and currency control | A transaction passport, a transfer in yuan, and a bank matching the purpose of payment against your OKVED activity codes. The first deal takes 2–4 weeks of approvals. | You pay in roubles against an invoice from a Russian supplier. A VAT invoice, exactly as when buying from any distributor. |
| Working capital | A container of passenger tyres is about 4.5 million ₽ frozen for 45–60 days: the prepayment to the factory, freight, duty and VAT at customs, all before the first tyre is sold. | 30 % prepayment on order, or 100 % for a pallet from stock. Your money works instead of sitting in a port. |
| Duty and anti-dumping | Duty of 10 %, and on truck tyres an anti-dumping duty on top — from 14.79 to 35.35 % depending on the manufacturing legal entity. Get the factory wrong and you overpay a third of the price. | Already in the price. The factories are chosen with the rate for each manufacturer taken into account. |
| 22 % VAT on import | Under the simplified tax regime import VAT cannot be reclaimed, so 700 thousand ₽ per container settle into your cost price. And you cannot invoice VAT to buyers on the general regime. | We are on the general tax regime. You receive a VAT invoice at 22 % and reclaim it. |
| Certification | TR CU 018/2011 and GOST R 51893-2024 (PAH) for every brand and size: 2–3 months, laboratory tests, 150–300 thousand ₽ before the first sale. | Our certificates cover the whole range — copies arrive with the batch. |
| Recycling levy | With no PAH certificate recorded in the register, the coefficient is 18: 1 202 ₽ on a 12 kg tyre instead of 67 ₽. The importer calculates and pays it. | Coefficient 1 at every one of our factories. The difference of 1 135 ₽ per tyre is already reflected in our price. |
| Chestny Znak marking | Registration, ordering the codes, applying them to every tyre before release into circulation, and reporting. | Every tyre is marked at our warehouse, and we hand the codes over by EDI together with the VAT invoice. |
| Defects and claims | Correspondence with the factory in Chinese, evidence, and a replacement with the next container two months later. | A report at our warehouse, a replacement from the reserve or your money back. We pursue the claim with the factory ourselves. |