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Businessmen on another “stupid idea” by Prakapovich (Video)

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Individual entrepreneurs are waiting with great suspense for a new decree which is to make them duplicate in their shop windows imported produce with Belarusian equivalents.

It is a new blow on businessmen. First they were subject to obligatory certification of goods under a hard-to-get and costly scheme. Then taxes were increased by 20%. At the moment the government is elaborating a new requirement, which is still viewed as weird rumours by some participants of the market, Belsat reports.

“It would not be possible, as some people are to come up and explain to Belarusian officials this idea is stupid,” said an entrepreneur from the central market of Homel.

The idea belongs to “the universal prime minister”, Pyotr Prakapovich. Its essence is: for each kind of imported goods sold at the market or in a shopping centre, the vendor is to offer a similar Belarusian product. The reaction of individual entrepreneurs was predictable.

“We know Belarusian goods very well. The same design could be sold for 5, or even 10 years. But models should be renewed all the time,” businessmen say.

“We shall sell them if only we are offered stylish Belarusian goods, but we do not have them, as for today,” they note.

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