After Gu Pan ran through the customs declaration and deposit procedures, everyone could finally start selling fish officially.

However, she got back a voucher to be paid, and she couldn't understand it, so she chased after Gu Kun and asked, "Brother, why didn't they let us pay the cash?" Just checked how many kilograms of Su Mei and Tsing Yi I had on this boat...... Register the portion size of each type of fish. ”

Gu Kun: "Nonsense, this is fresh, who knows if we can sell it out in time?" So, they have to wait for us to sell it, and then calculate the tax according to the guide price multiplied by the weight. If some of the fish is not sold, it will rot in our own hands.

It is also necessary to take the carcass of the rotten fish to the customs depository for verification, cancel the corresponding amount, and finally pay taxes on the taxable amount actually sold. The deposit and withdrawal registration system is designed for perishable trading objects. ”

Gu Pan thought about it again: "But I see that the guide price on this tax bill is so low, some fish species have not been counted by the customs, so they refer to other similar fish - you look at Tsing Yi, which shows that Yuezhou Customs did not import Tsing Yi last year, and they finally compared the cheapest grouper as the tax benchmark." But even if it's a grouper, it shouldn't be so cheap. ”

Gu Kun had no choice but to continue to answer patiently: "The customs calculate the transaction price of the dead fish, so we can transport the fish alive, and the premium part is our own ability." ”

"Captain, you know so much. Chen Lilongwu admired with emotion, and they felt more and more that the boss was really knowledgeable, and they could learn skills by following this boss.

Gu Kun didn't care about these compliments: "Don't talk nonsense, since all the formalities are over, you two will help sell fish together." ”

"Good captain. ”

The fishing port originally doubled as a fish market, and countless seafood merchants shuttled there on the docks, discussing business with fishing boats on the dock, so most of the common fish did not need to be specially bought separately.

Crowds come and go until noon, and the non-taxable local fish species are basically sold out.

Chen Li didn't care about eating lunch, so she reported to Gu Kun: "Captain, we sold a total of 5.5 tons of mackerel, 4 tons of tongue sole, 3 tons of mackerel, 2 tons of pomfret, and some worthless miscellaneous fish. These are relatively large, with an average of 4 to 10 yuan per kilogram of live fish, and a quarter of them are dead fish, with an average of only 2 yuan a catty, a total of 70,000 yuan.

In addition, there are more expensive varieties, such as 500 kilograms of grouper, 600 kilograms of sea bream, and 300 kilograms of sea shrimp and pike crab. The wholesale price of these items per kilogram is 30~50 yuan, a total of 50,000 yuan.

Finally, there are 50 kilograms of eastern star grouper, 120 kilograms of tuna, 200 kilograms of swordfish meat, 150~200 per kilogram wholesale, also 50,000. In addition, there are still a few fish fingerlings that have been declared according to the imported goods have not been sold, and the customs tax declaration officer just now said that they will arrange buyers for us. ”

Gu Kun calculated that a boatload of fish totaled nearly 20 tons, and 15 tons of native fish fingerlings had been sold, with a return of 170,000 yuan, and there were still two or three tons of precious tropical fish that had been declared for tax purposes unsold.

Gu Kun followed Chen Li's final report and asked, "Why does the customs still care about introducing buyers?"

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 couldn't pay us in US dollars - imported goods should be traded in US dollars, but Huaxia has foreign exchange settlement controls, and ordinary people can't take out US dollars. ”

Gu Kun: "Then can't I voluntarily accept RMB? You should have told them earlier, and after a few more delays, maybe Su Mei will die a few more, really." ”

However, since the customs side introduces buyers to foreign guests who pay taxes according to the regulations, they still have to give face, so let's see it.

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After lunch, Gu Kun and Chen Li were invited to a conference room in the office building of a nearby customs department. And his sister and Ryugo were left at the dock by him to watch the boat.

Gu Pan was too young after all, and Gu Kun was afraid that she would not be able to figure out these legal procedures, so the first time she encountered this kind of negotiation occasion, she still brought Chen Lilai. He also counted on Chen Li to learn faster, and he could help him run this kind of formalistic affairs next time.

There were not many guests in the conference room, there were seven or eight of them, except for Gu Kun and his party, the other six people could clearly see that they were white, Gu Kun estimated that they were all from Australia and New Zealand to sell lobster and wagyu beef, and the businessmen of those countries refused to accept RMB, and they must be settled in US dollars.

Selling seafood has to be so formal, which makes Gu Kun a little uncomfortable. In particular, the office building of this customs is located at the entrance of Nansha Hu, where foreigners are entertained, and it always gives people a sense of pre-examination of cigarette sales.

A few minutes later, customs officials who were the lead, as well as representatives of several counterpart 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 the most grassroots and the smallest card among several importers, others do not greet him, but deal with other customers first.

Lobster and Wagyu beef are all examples of stable markets, and those white people are estimated to have contacted business opportunities in advance, so the transaction is quite smooth.

Guangdong's annual import volume of high-end ingredients/seafood is still very considerable, and it is the number one in China in 94 years, mainly because of the Canton Fair in spring and autumn every year, which requires a large number of luxury business negotiations and consumption. Therefore, the country is still quite willing to spend foreign exchange on luxury.

The state also feels that spending more foreign exchange in Guangdong on the luxury industry is to earn more foreign exchange at the export expo, eat and drink well, and serve more foreign businessmen, which is also a very utilitarian purpose.

Only a few Australian businessmen, who seemed to be not prepared enough, temporarily came over to test the water, look at the feedback from the Chinese market, and brought the goods to a higher level, and finally the conversation collapsed - it was an Australian Yankee, who emphasized in English that his batch of Wagyu beef was M5 level, and it was very popular in the international market, and as a result, no one on the Chinese side cared about what M number.

Looking at this negotiation posture, Gu Kun has even less confidence in the customers found by the customs.

These state-owned import and export companies can give his Napoleon Mei an ordinary grouper price, which is estimated to be about the same.

After sending away a few Australian importers, a staff member of the Yuezhou Fresh Import and Export Company finally came to talk to Gu Kun in detail.

"Mr. Gu is an overseas Chinese in Nanyang, right? Then let's say Chinese doesn't mind? The category you brought this time has indeed not been sold before, and we urgently studied it at noon.

The local market of these fish species in Malaysia is about 10%~20% more expensive than other medium and high-end groupers except for the eastern star grouper.

Therefore, we are also willing to increase the import price of medium and high-end grouper in Guangdong by 15% to buy the varieties such as Tsing Yi and Napoleon Mei that you have shipped. ”

Gu Kun: "This is impossible, in Malaysia, this fish is the origin, and it is more expensive than medium and high-grade groupers." When I arrived in Guangdong, this is a tropical fish that I have never seen before, and it is worth more face to treat them, how much is this added value worth? If I am willing to calculate the price according to the proportion of Malaysia, then I will go back to Malaysia and sell it, why did I work so hard to travel 2,000 kilometers to come to Guangdong?"

"You international fishers are supposed to sell where you catch them, and it doesn't matter where you go ashore. "People in import and export companies still think they are very good at reducing prices.