In trade between the Principality of Moldova and the Russian Empire along with local merchants were involved and foreign traders, whose number prevail. Merchants aliens were exempt from tax benefits and commercial, has a number of privileges. Foreign merchants enjoyed a number of privileges, including 3% pay customs on import or export of goods, while local merchants pay 10% of cost of goods. The preponderance of merchants and craftsmen in the gubernatorial domestic Russian and Ukrainian in Moldova and the Romanian Country, occupied by the Russian armies, is the fact that they "...never and nowhere have not been subjected to any tax money and other benefits, but forever they were free trade relations without any restrictions". The local merchants to benefit from trade privileges have resorted to various strategies. A frequent method was the demand of the Russian and Austrian consular protection, which enables them to obtain the status of „Sudiţi”. However, the main role in trade relations between the Principality of Moldova and the Russian Empire has returned foreign merchants.