After Gu Pan completed the tax declaration and deposit procedures at the customs, everyone could finally start selling fish officially.
However, she got back a payment voucher. She couldn't figure it out, so she chased Gu Kun and asked: "Brother, why didn't they let us pay in cash? They just checked how many kilograms of Su Mei and Qingyi my boat had...
…Register the portion size of each type of fish.”
Gu Kun: "Nonsense, this is fresh food. Who knows if we can sell it out in time? So, they have to wait until we actually sell it, and then calculate the tax based on the guide price multiplied by the weight. If some fish are not sold
, it rotted in our own hands.
You also have to take the carcass of the rotten fish to the customs depositor for verification, destroy the corresponding amount, and finally pay tax on the taxable amount actually sold. The deposit registration system is designed for perishable transaction objects."
Gu Pan thought again: "But I see that the guide price on this tax bill is very low. Some fish species have not been counted by the customs, so they refer to other similar fish - look at the Qingyi item, which shows that Guangdong Province last year
The customs has never imported Tsing Yi, so they finally compared it with the cheapest grouper as the basis for tax calculation. But even grouper should not be so cheap."
Gu Kun could only continue to answer patiently: "Customs calculates the transaction price of dead fish, so if we can transport the fish alive, the premium is our own responsibility."
"Captain, you know so much." Chen Lilongwu sighed with admiration. They felt more and more that their boss was really knowledgeable and they could learn skills from this boss.
Gu Kun didn't care about these compliments: "Stop talking nonsense, now that all the procedures are completed, you two will help sell fish together."
"Okay Captain."
The fishing port also serves as a fish market. Countless aquatic product merchants shuttle around on the pier and negotiate business with the fishing boats docked one by one. Therefore, most common fish do not need to find a buyer specifically.
The group of people were busy coming and going until noon, and almost all the non-tax-declared local fish species were sold.
Chen Li didn't even bother to eat lunch, so she reported the accounts to Gu Kun: "Captain, we sold a total of 5.5 tons of mackerel, 4 tons of tongue sole, 3 tons of Spanish mackerel, 2 tons of pomfret, and some worthless ones.
Miscellaneous fish. These are relatively bulky. Live fish cost an average of 4 to 10 yuan per kilogram, and a quarter of them are dead fish, which cost an average of only 2 yuan per kilogram. A total of 70,000 yuan.
There are also more expensive varieties, including 500 kilograms of various groupers, 600 kilograms of sea bream, and 300 kilograms of sea shrimp and swimming crabs. The wholesale price of these items is 30 to 50 yuan per kilogram, totaling 50,000 yuan.
Finally, there are 50 kilograms of eastern star grouper, 120 kilograms of tuna, and 200 kilograms of swordfish meat. Each kilogram is wholesaled at 150 to 200, which is also 50,000. In addition, there are a few fish species that are not sold according to the customs declaration as imported goods. The customs tax preparer just made a deposit
He said he would arrange a buyer for us."
Gu Kun did a mental calculation and found that the fish in the boat totaled nearly 20 tons. He had already sold 15 tons of local fish species, earning a return of RMB 170,000. He still had two or three tons of tax-declared precious tropical fish left unsold.
Gu Kun followed Chen Li's last report and asked: "The customs still introduces buyers? Why?"
Chen Li: "When I went to go through the formalities with Miss Gu just now, I heard that it was because other self-employed businessmen could not pay us in U.S. dollars - imported goods are supposed to be traded in U.S. dollars, but China has foreign exchange settlement controls, and ordinary people can use U.S. dollars to pay us.
No dollars.”
Gu Kun: "Then can't I voluntarily collect RMB? You should have told them earlier. If you delay it for a few hours, maybe Su Mei will die a few more times. Really."
However, since the customs authorities introduce buyers to foreign customers who pay taxes according to regulations, they still have to give face and meet them.
…
After lunch, Gu Kun and Chen Li were invited to a conference room in a nearby customs department office building. He left his sister and Long Wu at the dock to watch the ship.
After all, Gu Pan was too young, and Gu Kun was also afraid that she would not be able to figure out these legal procedures, so he brought Chen Li here for the first time in such a negotiation. He also hoped that Chen Li would learn faster and help him run next time.
Such formal matters.
There were not many guests in the conference room, only seven or eight people. Except for Gu Kun and his party, the other six people could clearly see that they were white people. Gu Kun guessed that they were all from Australia and New Zealand selling lobsters and lobsters.
For Wagyu, businessmen from those countries are unwilling to accept RMB, so they must settle in U.S. dollars.
Selling seafood has to be so formal, which makes Gu Kun a little uncomfortable. Especially the customs office building is located at the Humen Gate of Nansha. When foreigners are entertained here, it always gives people a sense of deja vu.
A few minutes later, the leading customs staff, as well as representatives of several corresponding state-owned import and export companies in Guangdong, as well as several of the largest local state-owned hotels, also arrived, and the two sides began routine negotiations. Because Gu Kun is from Gu Kun.
Among the importers, he is the most humble and has the smallest reputation, so others do not greet him, but deal with other customers first.
Lobster and Wagyu beef have a long history of stable prices, and the white people probably contacted them in advance about the business opportunities, so the transaction was quite smooth.
Guangdong's annual import volume of high-end ingredients/seafood is still very considerable. It was ranked first in the country in 1994. The main reason is that the Canton Fair here every spring and autumn requires a lot of pretentious luxury business negotiations and consumption. Therefore, the country is quite willing.
Spend foreign exchange on luxury items.
The country also feels that spending more foreign exchange on the luxury industry in Guangdong is to earn more foreign exchange at the export expo, eat well and serve more foreign businessmen, which is also a very utilitarian purpose.
Only a few Australian businessmen, who seemed to have insufficient preparations, came over temporarily to test the waters and see the feedback from the Chinese market. The types of goods they brought were a bit more advanced, but the negotiation finally broke down - it was an Australian guy who was chattering in English.
He emphasized that his batch of Wagyu beef was of M5 level, and it was very popular in the international market. As a result, no one in China cared about the M level.
After seeing this negotiation posture, Gu Kun was even less confident in the customers found by the customs.
These state-owned import and export companies can give him the price of ordinary grouper, which is probably about the same.
After sending away several Australian importers, a staff member from the Guangdong Fresh Food Import and Export Company finally came to talk to Gu Kun in detail.
"Mr. Gu is an overseas Chinese from Nanyang, right? Then don't you mind if we speak Chinese? The categories you brought this time have never been sold before. We did some urgent research at noon.
The local market price of these fish species in Malaysia is about 10% to 20% more expensive than other mid- to high-end groupers except Eastern star grouper.
Therefore, we are also willing to increase the local import price of mid-to-high-end grouper in Guangdong by 15% to purchase the Tsing Yi and Sumei varieties shipped by you."
Gu Kun: "This is impossible. In Malaysia, this fish is native and is 20% more expensive than mid-to-high-end grouper. When I arrived in Guangdong, this was a tropical fish I had never seen before. It would be more honorable to treat guests to it. This extra price is worth it."
How much is it worth? If I am willing to calculate the price according to the proportion in Malaysia, then I can go back to Malaysia and sell it directly. Why do I have to travel 2,000 kilometers to Guangdong?"
"Those of you who are international fishermen, you just sell it wherever you catch it, and it doesn't matter where you land it." People from the import and export company also think that they are very knowledgeable in keeping prices down.