The Federal Customs Service, together with the Ministry of Digital Development, is discussing the possibility of restricting business access to customs data. About this writes the publication “Kommersant” with reference to its sources.
As the newspaper explains, information about shipments and deliveries of equipment to Russia gets into the foreign media, and this threatens domestic and foreign companies that continue to cooperate with the Russian Federation with sanctions. Thus, to solve the problem, customs data is proposed to be encrypted.
However, according to experts, because of this, distributors may have problems with the tax authorities. The latter use customs data to estimate the value of products. True, the government assures that there are no such risks, Kommersant writes.
Currently, distributors of computer technology and electronics have access to primary customs data. They receive such information directly from the department, and it can be distributed among distributor partners, therefore, the source of the publication points out, it is difficult to avoid leaks.
According to the interlocutor, the relevant information, as a rule, is used by companies to form prices and plan purchases. It is on the basis of primary customs data that statistics is formed. However, the source added, the primary data make it possible to identify the legal entities of the senders and recipients of goods, which threatens with new sanctions and threatens parallel imports.
Another interlocutor of the publication said that it was proposed to place the customs declarations of a number of IT importers in a closed segment of the database. The second security measure that could be applied is data encryption, including by commodity codes, he added.
As Oleg Izumrudov, executive director of the Consortium of Russian Developers of Data Storage Systems, told Kommersant, foreign companies that continue to cooperate with Russian partners first of all asked to restrict access to data. According to him, it is important for companies to receive FCS data, but they understand that it is better to temporarily close them to protect against possible sanctions.
Source: Rosbalt
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