【CNN20140822】购物者还是走私贩？中国打击代购热潮

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【中文标题】购物者还是走私贩？中国打击代购热潮

【原文标题】Shoppers orsmugglers? China cracks down on 'daigou' boom

【原文地址】http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/19/world/asia/china-personal-shoppers/index.html

【作者】Katie Hunt

A woman carries luxury shopping bags in Hong Kong.

图示为香港一女子提着多个奢侈品购物袋

Hong Kong (CNN) -- Unlike most twentysomethings starting out in New York  City, Zhang Yuzhu is not scrimping to make rent.

在纽约，与多数初来乍到的20多岁年轻人不同，张玉珠（音）并不用为付房租而省吃俭用。

A graduate student from China,Zhang spends her free time in the city's swankiest department stores buyingdesigner goods.

作为一名中国研究生，她的业余时间都花在了在最奢华的百货商店购买名牌产品。

Zhang, however, is not splashing her own cash. She is one of China'sgrowing ranks of "haiwai daigou," or overseas personal shoppers, thatsource luxury items for customers back home.

然而，张玉珠并不会大肆挥霍自己的钱财。她是中国新兴的“海外代购”大军中的一员，专门为中国国内的顾客代购奢侈品。

It's a booming business that was worth 74.4 billion yuan ($12 billion) in2013, according to the China E-commerce Research Center.

据中国电子商务研究中心表明，海外代购是目前十分红火的一门生意，去年规模已达744亿人民币。

"Usually I can earn $200 to $300 for aChanel handbag, but I will get more for a Hermes," Zhang told CNN.

张玉珠告诉CNN ：“通常每卖出一个香奈儿手提包我都可以赚200至300美元，要是爱马仕的话我可以赚的更多。”

Zhang's customers get designer goods for lessthan they would at home by circumventing China's steep taxes on luxuryitems. She says they cost 30% less in the United States.
张玉珠说，跟国内相比，她的顾客可以以更低廉的价格购买奢侈品。通过代购，她们购买时可以逃避中国高昂的奢侈品进口税，从而省出30%的钱。

Chinese are the biggest buyers of luxury goodsglobally, making 29% of all purchases, according to consultants Bain & Company, and these purchases areincreasingly being made abroad, mostly by tourists, but also by people likeZhang.

据贝恩公司指出，中国人是全球最大的奢侈品买家，占购买总量的29%。其中境外购买逐渐增多且大多由中国游客所为，但也不乏像张这样的代购者。

Many young Chinese studying in places like New York, London, Paris and Tokyohave started ad hoc businesses, with Bain saying that Chinese luxury sales willbecome increasingly reliant on this kind of "parallel trade."

随着许多在纽约、伦敦、巴黎、东京的年轻留学生开始从事这门生意，贝恩公司称中国的奢侈品销售将会越来越依赖于这种“平行贸易”。

Zhang finds her clients through Chinese socialmedia like WeChat and Weibo, where she posts pictures of the latest items aboutonce a month. Customers then wire the purchase price by bank transfer, includinga buyer's commission.

张玉珠的大部分客户来源于微博、微信等社交平台。每个月她都会将最新的商品照片上传，她的顾客则会通过银行转账的方式将钱汇给她，这笔钱包括了一部分佣金。

Others use the eBay-like site Taobao operated byChinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.

其他的人则通过淘宝网（由中国电子商务巨头阿里巴巴运营）进行购买。

In a goodmonth, she will buy about six bags from the likes of Chanel, Hermes, Prada,Dior and Bottega Veneta.

在生意红火的月份，她可以代购大约六个名牌手包（香奈儿、爱马仕、普拉达、迪奥、葆蝶家等）。

Paris-based Li, who only wanted to give hisfamily name, earns more than $6,000 amonth buying luxury items in French stores on behalf of clients back home. AnMBA graduate, he has no plans to pursue a different career despite hiseducational credentials.
在巴黎从事奢侈品代购的李先生，每个月能赚6000多美元。作为一名工商管理硕士，尽管拥有如此高的学历，他却并不打算“转行”。

"I'm a big fan of luxury products and Ithink daigou is a much easier job than others," he said.

“我十分喜爱奢侈品，我觉得跟其他工作相比，代购要轻松多了。”他说道。

However, Li says the business is unstable. Eventhough he's on first-name terms with sales staff in stores like Hermes he can'tget special deals.

然而，李先生也表示这个行当并不稳定。尽管他和爱马仕等奢侈品商店的销售员工私交甚好，但也拿不到特殊优惠。

"It's Hermes so no-one can get any discountunless you are a super VIP," he said.

“除非你是爱马仕的超级会员，不然根本拿不到任何折扣。”他说道。

But an anti-corruption campaign launched by ChinesePresident Xi Jinping that saw Chinese sales of luxury goods slow significantly in 2013has also hurt his business, said Li.

除此之外，李先生称中国主席习近平发起的反腐运动使得2013年中国奢侈品销售大幅下降，这也“殃及”了他的生意。

His customers spend less than they used to asflaunting designer watches and extravagant gift giving to officials is nowfrowned upon.

随着越来越多的官员不再收取名牌手表和贵重礼品，他的顾客在奢侈品上的花费也减少了。

But Chinese wallets are expected to remain theglobe's biggest source of spending on designer goods, and, according to ErwanRambourg, Chinese consumers will account for one in two purchases by 2025 andmost of these will be made abroad.

尽管如此，中国人仍会是全球最大的奢侈品买家。据艾尔万.拉姆伯格称，到2025年，中国消费者的奢侈品购买力将占全球一半，并且大多数消费都是境外消费。

Smuggling or shopping?

走私还是购物？

With large amounts of money changing hands underthe official radar, the trade has also caught the attention of China's customsauthorities.

随着大量资金在官方雷达监控下转手，这种贸易也引起了中国海关当局的注意。

From August 1, the General Administration ofCustoms has stipulated that all individuals engaged in "cross-bordere-commerce" must provide a list of imported and exported items to customs.

中国海关总署规定，从八月一日起，所有从事“跨境电子商务贸易”的个人必须向海关提供进出境物品清单。

"Those who do not play by the rules will beseen as lawbreakers or even smugglers," Lu Zhenwang, chief executive ofShanghai-based e-commerce firm Wanqing Consultancy toldThe China Daily.

上海万擎商务咨询有限公司CEO鲁振旺告诉《中国日报》：“不遵守这些规定的人将被视为违法甚至是走私。”

"That's a risk few people would want totake."

“很少有人愿意承担这种风险。”

However, Zhang and Li both said they had noimmediate plans to give up their lucrative sidelines despite the newregulation.

然而，张玉珠和李先生都表示，新规定并未使其打算立刻放弃代购这个利润丰厚的“副业”。

"You can say this is smuggling but youcan't prove it. The products were purchased in a legal way," said Li.

“你可以说这是走私，但是你无法证明这一点。所有商品都是以合法途径购买的。”李先生说道。

Zhang says she doesn't plan to be a personalshopper forever but it's an easy way for her to earn extra cash at a time whenmany graduates, even those who studied abroad, struggle to find a job backhome.

张玉珠说她并不打算一直从事代购，但是，在连海外研究生都不易找工作的今天，从事代购确实能让她轻松地赚取外快。

After graduating, she hopes to find a job intelevision or the movie industry.

她希望自己毕业后能在电视业或电影业找到一份工作。

"It's a part-time job for me so I can earnsome pocket money."

“对我来说代购只是一份赚取零花钱的兼职。”

fshysh

关税太高
这行当就火

下个月

那啥，卧能说奢侈税还是太低么，你个仇富的