If you buy and sell rosewood and transport it privately from that small port, you won't get a penny in tax from South Vietnam.
However, if you want to legalize it when entering the country, you must declare customs, and then you must pay taxes.
The tax rate for this kind of luxury goods is not low.
It is also because of these that the price finally reached 3,000 yuan in the hands of consumers.
However, the profits here must have gone through layers of exploitation. Anyone who handles them will make huge profits. This is the value of good things.
Even if Ruan Yin knew that the final sales value in China would reach 3,000 yuan per catty, he could only know and be envious.
Ruan Yin may have some strength around this small village. If he comes out of this place, even in South Vietnam, he can't do it. He can't even be considered powerful, let alone go to the country...
He couldn't go to the country, nor could he sell it in person, because the channels and environment were not something he could easily get through.
This is the reason for his background. Just like Chen Wenzhe, even if he is an ordinary person in China, as long as he can buy the good wood in front of him, he can make a fortune when he returns to China.
As long as you encounter this kind of old material and old material like the one in front of you, it is an opportunity and you will definitely make money.
But he is not a South Vietnamese. Just because he is not Chinese, it will be difficult for him to open up domestic channels.
Of course, this is also an opportunity for many Chinese.
It can be said that the problem with things of this level is not encountered now, rather than the price.
Here, no matter how high the price is, how high can it be?
In fact, prices here are not low, and North Vietnam is relatively cheaper, and RMB can be used in many places.
If you go to South Vietnam, prices will be even more expensive, because there is a US dollar zone, and prices are based on US dollars.
At this time, Chen Wenzhe offered one hundred yuan per catty, which was already a sky-high price in South Vietnam.
Converted into local dong, one hundred yuan is already more than 360,000 yuan. You must know that this is the price of one kilogram.
Let’s still use the smaller piece of wood just now to calculate the price. A piece of wood weighing 500 kilograms can be sold for 1.8 billion South Vietnamese Dong.
Ruan Yin did a little calculation and knew that the price was not low. At least when he got it, it must be an astronomical figure in South Vietnam.
Now that both parties are satisfied, weigh the deal.
Each piece of wood is lifted down and weighed. Although it is troublesome, it is a necessary process.
There is no scale to directly weigh the car here. If it is in China, it will be done quickly, but here, you can only use the most primitive method of transaction.
It’s okay anyway, just trade slowly!
Taking advantage of the transaction, Chen Wenzhe took a serious look at the timber.
After all, the price is not low, so Chen Wenzhe needs to take a closer look even at the wood that is pressed underneath.
There is definitely nothing wrong with the wood above, it is thick, thin, curved, some are thick, but short.
And some are thin but very long, so the total amounts they weigh are quite different.
Some of the heavy ones weigh more than 500 kilograms, which means that a piece of wood weighs more than a thousand kilograms.
Although it is only half a ton, the weight is definitely not low. After all, this kind of wood does not grow tall and straight.
They are generally in a short and thick state, and good straight and long wood is rare.
While weighing and identifying, Chen Wenzhe soon discovered something unusual.
Because he found that the wood below had become straighter and longer.
The quantity of this batch of wood was greater than he estimated.
There were more than a dozen weighed on top, but I didn't expect there were more below.
This was originally a good thing, but when the weight went down, Chen Wenzhe discovered that the wood underneath had changed.
At first he thought Ruan Yin was causing trouble, but when he took a closer look, he found that the wood underneath was not bad either.
Although it is not Vietnamese-Cambodian rosewood, it is still rosewood.
Why can you see it? Look at the shape, texture, smell the fragrance, and then try the density.
In fact, at the beginning, I mainly looked at the profiles.
The top part is all short, thick and curved wood, but down here, it actually becomes much straighter.
If you move your hands a little bit, you can feel that the wood underneath is less dense.
Because the same thickness of wood is longer, it does not increase much weight.
Chen Wenzhe's hands are the most sensitive to weight, so he can naturally see such a big change.
"Big fruit red sandalwood?" Chen Wenzhe laughed.
He knows that in China, when you talk about Vietnam-Cambodia red sandalwood, ordinary people don’t even know what it is.
But many people have heard of big-fruited rosewood. In terms of price, the price of big-fruited rosewood logs is significantly higher than that of bird's foot rosewood and Vietnamese-Cambodian rosewood logs.
However, because the density of large-fruited rosewood is low, the core of the tree is straight, and the yield rate is higher than that of bird's-foot rosewood and Vietnamese-Cambodian rosewood, the cost difference after making finished furniture has narrowed.
Therefore, in China, we simply classify the large-fruited rosewood, bird's foot rosewood, and Vietnamese-Cambodian rosewood into the rosewood category of the national standard mahogany.
In this way, this is the same tree species, but essentially they are different.
Currently on the market, the wood commonly known as Burmese rosewood actually includes these three types of wood.
Specifically, in the log market, they are sold under their own names, but after they are made into finished furniture, they are collectively called Burmese rosewood.
To be precise, Burmese rosewood is the common name of large-fruited rosewood.
The reason why the other two types are also classified as Burmese rosewood is because the finished products are relatively similar in color and texture.
The biggest difference between them is in the logs. Even in domestic academic updates, Big Fruit Rosewood, Bird's Foot Rosewood, and Vietnam-Cambodia Rosewood have been considered to be the same tree species.
In producing countries such as Vietnam and Cambodia, Vietnam-Cambodia rosewood and bird's foot rosewood have long been merged into big-fruited rosewood, and big-fruited rosewood is the only applicable name.
Moreover, such a general name is also beneficial to sales staff, because people only believe that the large-fruited rosewood is Burmese rosewood.
If you explain to a customer that what you see is not a large-fruited rosewood, but another variety, but it is also a Burmese flower.
At this time, even if you bring out the country's academic evidence, it will be useless.
In fact, there is not much price difference between them when they are made into finished products. The big difference is when they are all made of logs.
Moreover, the price of big-fruit red sandalwood logs is significantly higher than that of bird's foot red sandalwood and Vietnam-Cambodia red sandalwood logs.
The main reason for this is that the density of large-fruited rosewood is small, the tree core is straight, and the yield rate is higher than that of bird's-foot rosewood and Vietnamese-Cambodian rosewood.
This results in low production costs and avoids the need for scarcity.
Therefore, the price difference of the products has been greatly reduced. If we really want to find some defects, it is that the large-fruited rosewood is also commonly known as Burmese rosewood. Its density is lower than that of bird's foot rosewood and Vietnamese-Cambodian rosewood, so it is also called light rosewood.
However, this kind of red sandalwood also has obvious advantages. Compared with the other two types, it has a stronger fragrance, a straight core, regular texture, and a high yield rate.