Chapter 2294 Cross-border Complexity

In recent years, the domestic film market has been booming.

The U.S. film market only started to improve this summer. Performance in the past two years has continued to decline, and the industry situation is very bleak.

But China has maintained extremely high growth in recent years.

It has even become the industry with the fastest growth rate and the brightest prospects in China.

In this way, all parties will pay attention.

Internet giants began to enter the market one after another, and real estate giants also began to eye this industry. The former focuses on film production, while the latter focuses on building movie theaters.

Shi's father-in-law also noticed it and thought he could invest in a movie theater.

Zhou Buqi persuaded him for a while and suppressed his idea. The bigger your business is, the greater the pressure you will have to bear when deleveraging in the future.

The next day, Boss Ma came to Magic City.

He mainly visited a big leader in the financial field, and what he mainly talked about was Alibaba's case of repurchasing 20% ​​of its shares from Yahoo, which required approval from the authorities.

Zhou Buqi was also involved in this case, but he didn't need to go.

Boss Ma is going because he wants to mobilize a large amount of foreign exchange.

Zhou Buqi did not use domestic funds to take over the 10% of Alibaba stocks. The entire transaction process was completed in the United States, with payment and settlement in U.S. dollars. The whole process had nothing to do with the domestic side.

This matter has basically been settled.

It is expected that the payment transaction will be available in another half month. Yahoo Japan's actions are a little slower, and it may take until the end of August to complete the transaction.

Then the two of them drank tea together, and the topic turned to cross-border e-commerce.

Not to mention the so-called cross-border e-commerce teams that cheat money overseas, just a group of people who are serious about doing business actually started this year.

Because Amazon has launched a global store plan.

That is, products from all countries and regions in the world can be opened on Amazon’s platform, and then sold to the world through Amazon.

Many people discovered the opportunity and went to Amazon to open stores for consumers around the world. Cross-border e-commerce has officially emerged.

Zhou Buqi said jokingly: "Old Ma, you can't do this either? Look at Bezos, he has opened up the cross-border e-commerce market on his own. He is also doing e-commerce, when can you start it?" A trend?”

"The focus is different." Boss Ma waved his hand, and then snorted, "Amazon will lose billions of dollars if they do this, and they won't have a long memory."

Zhou Buqi asked: "What's wrong?"

Boss Ma said: "With so many countries and regions open in a short period of time, how are they going to manage and select stores? By then, they will definitely be using fake products to make up for the losses, which will greatly increase the difficulty of management, and even many scammer shops will appear."

Zhou Buqi nodded.

Boss Ma sighed, "Cross-border e-commerce is very good, and it is conducive to the global flow of goods. But there is no clear explanation about cross-border e-commerce in China. This kind of goods must go through customs when crossing the border. But there can’t be a long-term clearance review, we have to rush in and out quickly to meet the time.”

Zhou Buqi understood immediately, "So it is easy for some oversights to pass the inspection."

Boss Ma said: Yes, if normal procedures are followed, it will be difficult for some illegal goods to pass customs, whether they are imported or exported. However, if it is a cross-border e-commerce process, because efficiency is prioritized, speed is faster, and the privacy of the package is high, it is easy to breed crime.

"It really is!"

Zhou Buqi is also aware of the policy risks involved.

Boss Ma said: "I'm not talking about China. The country has not yet recognized the cross-border e-commerce model, so the customs clearance review follows the traditional process, which will be safer. But some countries have already recognized cross-border e-commerce. And they attach great importance to the privacy of private packages, so it is easy for them to use this mechanism to transport illegal things."

Zhou Buqi gave his own judgment, "Cross-border e-commerce will definitely become the next global transaction trend. When the trend becomes unstoppable, the domestic side will definitely issue documents to strongly support the development of cross-border e-commerce."

Boss Ma is in the e-commerce business, so of course he will get more attention than him. "Domestic action will definitely not be too fast, because it also involves the reform of the financial industry. It doesn't matter in many developed countries, and foreign exchange can be freely exchanged." It is not feasible in China. The promotion of cross-border e-commerce, whether it is sales or procurement, will involve a large number of long-term and extremely frequent foreign exchange transactions, which also requires reducing restrictions on the financial market to a certain extent."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "Looking at it this way, it's not surprising that global cross-border e-commerce was initiated by Bezos instead of You. Don't worry! Lao Ma, I never meant to look down on you!"

Of course, Boss Ma was not convinced and snorted: "What did he initiate? As early as ten years ago, I was engaged in cross-border e-commerce. At that time, I could sell tens of millions of goods from China to South Korea, Japan, and Japan every year. Go to Southeast Asia. Isn’t this cross-border e-commerce?”

"That's a large-scale order you're talking about." Zhou Buqi shook his head, "That's no different from the traditional foreign trade model. The difference is that traditional foreign trade involves viewing goods offline and signing orders offline, while you are engaged in B-side e-commerce. , it is to view the goods online and sign the order online. There is no difference in other processes."

Boss Ma said with a smile: "Of course it's a large-scale order!"

Zhou Buqi said: "The soul of cross-border e-commerce should be to avoid some niche products that are traded in large orders, and should be a small order model."

"How can it be?"

Boss Ma shook his head repeatedly.

"Isn't it?"

Zhou Buqi was slightly startled, feeling a little unconfident.

Talking about e-commerce in front of Boss Ma is a bit of a trick.

Boss Ma smiled and said: "You are actually right. From a theoretical point of view, it is indeed like that. In traditional trade, in order to solve the intermediate channel fees of logistics, warehousing, negotiation, and operation, large orders of goods must be purchased. . In this way, the additional cost of a single product can be greatly reduced. Once it is a large order purchase, in order to ensure sales, it must be a popular product, a product that has universal commonality among consumers around the world."

Zhou Buqi immediately understood the other party's focus, "Cost..."

Boss Ma said: "If cross-border e-commerce wants to survive better, it must avoid the large order system of traditional trade and select some niche products for small order transactions. This is conventional logic."

"Um."

"But don't forget that the cost of cross-border e-commerce is extremely high. In addition to cross-border freight, you also have to bear additional tariffs. This will greatly increase the cost of cross-border e-commerce. A product worth $5, others The additional cost of the channel may reach $15.”

"It really is."

Zhou Buqi was thoughtful.

The reason why he pays so much attention to cross-border e-commerce is not because of the charming beauty Ji Xiaqing.

What kind of woman has he not seen in all these years?

How could he be seduced by a female subordinate?

The main reason is still out of concern for Shi Jinglin. She is really a bit special and different from other women in the family. Her lesbian attributes make her even more sensitive during pregnancy.

Fortunately, her family took special care of her and comforted her every emotional change, even though she was afraid of depression during pregnancy.

But Zhou Buqi feels that this strategy treats the symptoms rather than the root cause.

In the final analysis, Shi Jinglin has the attributes of a strong woman.

Raising a baby at home for a long time will inevitably have some impact on your mental and spiritual state. A woman like her is not suitable to be confined in a deep palace compound.

Gotta find something for her to do!

Cross-border e-commerce is a good choice.

In the early years, Shi Jinglin created the on-campus group buying business and achieved great results.

During her tenure at Xiaonei.com, Xiaonei.com was Ziweixing's pillar industry, and it was Xiaonei.com that made money to support the entire company. After other industries had grown up, they gradually began to provide benefit feedback to Xiaonei.com.