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When more and more people asked questions about the business warehouse FBA cross piece and small series that it is necessary to organize the next on the concepts, FBA knowledge resolve See this article.

A, FBA Profile

What is FBA?

English full name: Fulfillment simple statement by Amazon, Amazon FBA warehouse first trip overseas distribution transport is offered by Amazon behalf of the shipping business.

Amazon now mainly three main businesses:

1.Media (ie, vendors sell their products commission);

2.FBA (rental shop selling traffic + + + generation of sub-warehouse rental package-shipping + behalf of the collection);

3.Amazon web services (including s3 \ db \ aq, and other products, can be understood as IDC + CDN acceleration + personalized establishment).

For Amazon users in mainland China, the Amazon FBA head away include costs two steps:

1. goods to domestic service providers warehouse;

2. Domestic service providers to transport goods to the warehouse at Amazon (Amazon US or Amazon Europe).

① Standard Service

From China's Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and other port cities warehouse receipt, by sea air and other modes of transport will be sellers of goods to the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, Japan, Germany and other countries of the Amazon warehouse specified!

② value-added services

1. Print Amazon Tags: Amazon FBA barcode content in accordance with the requirements of print appropriate labels for each product.

2. Generation Labeling: According to Amazon FBA storage requirements, each product carrying the appropriate bar code.

3. Binning fee: Amazon FBA storage in accordance with the requirements of the type and quantity of products, sorting press boxes.

③ return

Can help deal with the Amazon warehouse back pieces to help customers re-operate cargo warehousing retransmission or other treatments. In accordance with the actual situation of the relevant operational requirements generated by another billing.

④ extension services

Agent import and export customs clearance declaration, payment of customs duties and customs clearance charges VAT.

Clearance

Customs clearance, domestic service providers use customer VAT own account to make a clearance. If the customer does not have VAT account, domestic service providers can also provide "VAT account registration" value-added services. About VAT account registration, please see "value-added services - UK VAT registration" service.

Tax calculation

Air shipping tax calculation: the value of * tariff taxes =

two. FBA benefits

1. Improve Listing rankings, helps sellers become a feature of the seller and snatch cart, increase customer confidence and increase sales.

2 years of rich experience in logistics, warehouse all over the world, intelligent management (2012 acquisition of robotics company Kiva Systems).

3. Distribution aging fast (mostly warehouse near the airport)

4. Amazon professional customer service.

5. Erase Poor dispute caused by the logistics.

6. priced more than 300USD product exempt from all FBA logistics costs.

three. FBA disadvantage

1. The general cost slightly higher than domestic shipments, but it also depends on the product weight (especially third-party platforms FBA delivery).

2. inflexible (common short board all overseas warehouse, but warehouse or other third-party overseas Chinese may have specialized customer service to deal with some issues, FBA can be used only in English and communication with customers, and does not communicate by e-mail reply to the first Tripartite overseas warehouse customer then promptly).

3. If preliminary work is not done, label scanning problems will affect the storage of goods, and even unable to enter the library.

The return address can only be the United States (if you are to be an American site FBA).

four. Amazon introduced express warehousing operations

Recipient company AMAZON (Amazon) or US FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon: Amazon provides behalf of the shipping business); AMAZON (Amazon) is an Internet e-commerce company, is not really the ultimate recipient, so Amazon will not assist in handling cargo clearance and payment of taxes and other matters. So Amazon warehousing business in addition to the recipient of the Amazon, it also needs a customs clearance agent or local recipient company or individual, otherwise the Amazon goods may be returned, resulting in high costs.

Invoice is reflected in our performance, AMAZON as SHIP TO, and customs clearance agents or other companies SOLD TO. Please note clearly marked SHIP TO, avoid mistakes.

Problems such shipments mainly reflected the tax and customs clearance. To avoid problems with the shipment, please be sure to follow the following requirements sender processing shipments.

1. Before send cargo sender shall coordinate and importer of goods and receipt of clearance issues, to ensure future access to local goods, customs clearance contact will cooperate with service providers or clearance agent process shipments clearance issues.

2. The shipping invoice must indicate the real importer (buyer or customs clearance agent) company name, address, specific contacts, contact information (telephone, mobile phone and e-mail).

3. Because AMAZON not any clearances and tariff prepaid services, in order to avoid problems of goods because the tariff retention, please make sure before you ship goods tariff payers, the proposed tariff duties paid or third-party payment.

The sender and the importer should be prepared to sign for the shipment coordination problem, as soon as possible to confirm whether the goods arrive intact warehouse and delivery, in order to avoid leakage of closing the case, the wrong income and so on. Such as occur due to wrong or missing income received, the importer or the recipient fails or unable to provide detailed information lead to parcel service providers can not be investigated, will likely result in the shipment can not claim, then all the responsibilities and costs borne by the sending party . Amazon needs to have warehousing label, if the label is missing, you can not scan warehousing.