Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade intends to use RFID chips to deter counterfeit products
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The Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade plans to apply RFID chips to clothing and footwear products. The plan applies to members of its customs union, hoping to curb counterfeit products on the market.
According to Georgy Kalamanov, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade, the pharmaceutical industry has begun to adopt a similar system, which is also used to curb counterfeiting, and he believes that all members of the Customs Union (Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan) should adopt this system.
Soyuzlegprom, the China Textile Industry Federation, stated that the company had already proposed plans to adopt RFID chips to representatives of the Customs Union. The Rusnano subsidiary also has a partnership with Belarusrecognition systemThe center cooperated and put forward a plan to adopt electronic tags.
However, the contractor responsible for the plan has not yet been selected.In Russia, only two companies produceRFIDChips: RST-Invent and Micron (responsible for the production of chips for Moscow Metro tickets).
Clothing manufacturers believe that the cost of using electronic tags and related reading devices is too high, which will affect product prices.
Soyuzlegprom stated that the budget for the implementation of the plan is one trillion rubles, which is equivalent to the total value of fake clothing and footwear reported annually.
According to the Federal Customs Service (FCS), since 2007, Russia has exposed 70 million counterfeit products, compared with 4.8 million in the first half of 2013; the value of counterfeit products confiscated in the first half of this year amounted to 5.6 million rubles.
According to FCS, most of the counterfeit products exposed are clothing, footwear and toys.
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