The Federal Customs Service has prepared an initiative that could fundamentally change the work of sellers of imported goods on marketplaces.
The proposal is to oblige the sites to indicate three key parameters in the cards of goods imported from outside the EAEU: the country of origin, the HS code and the customs declaration number.
The logic of the FCS is clear. Marketplaces are now the largest channel for the sale of gray imports. The product may be imported at a reduced cost or without proper customs clearance at all, and then sold in an open retail network. Linking the product card to a specific customs declaration makes such schemes transparent.
In parallel, the introduction of SPOT (detailed review of SPOT) is underway, which records each shipment from the EAEU even before crossing the border. The FCS proposal logically closes this system at the next stage: after importation, the goods must be identified at the point of sale.
For bona fide sellers, the change does not fundamentally change anything — they already have all the data. Labor costs will increase at the stage of filling out the cards, but the information itself exists in the documents.
The problem arises for those who work with goods without a complete customs history — parallel imports, cargo shipments, purchases through intermediaries without a complete set of documents. For them, the requirement to link the card to the declaration will become a serious barrier.
The initiative is still at the proposal stage — there is no final decision. But the vector of movement is obvious: marketplaces are becoming part of the customs control system. Sellers should prepare for this right now by building a complete documentary chain for each import item.
