When more and more people to ask questions about the FBA business warehouse the American captain, captain believes that it is necessary to organize relevant concepts on FBA, knowledge analysis as detailed in this paper.

A FBA introduction

What is the FBA?
Full name: Fulfillment by Amazon English, simple view of Amazon's overseas FBA Cangtou process distribution, is the Amazon to provide goods and services.

Amazon is currently the main three main business:
1.Media (i.e. their vendors product sales commission);
2.FBA (rental shop selling + flow + warehouse rental + shipping + packing collection);
3.Amazon web services (including s3\db\aq and other products, can be understood as IDC+CDN acceleration + personalized website).

On China, Amazon users, Amazon FBA process includes 2 steps of the cost:

1. to send the goods to the warehouse of domestic service providers;

2. domestic service providers to transport the goods to the warehouse (or Amazon Amazon Amazon America Europe).

The standard of service
From Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou China port city warehouse receipt, shipping by air transport will deliver the goods to the seller by the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, Japan, Germany and other countries designated the Amazon warehouse!

The value-added service

1.: according to the label print Amazon Amazon FBA barcode printing content requirements for each product corresponding labels.
The 2. generation of label: according to Amazon's FBA storage requirements, each product with the corresponding bar code.
3. box fees: in accordance with the type and quantity of the Amazon FBA storage products, according to the sorting box.

The return service
To back a deal with Amazon warehouse, to help customers to repeat warehousing or other processing goods. According to the actual situation of the relevant operation requirements, and other accrued expenses.

The extension service
Agent import and export customs declaration, customs clearance and pay customs fees VAT.

Customs clearance
Customs clearance, domestic service providers use the customer's own VAT account for customs clearance. If the customer does not have a VAT account, domestic service providers can also provide "VAT account registration" value-added services. About VAT account registration please check the "value-added services in the United Kingdom VAT registration service.

Tax calculation
Calculation of empty shipping taxes: taxes = value * tariff

The advantages of.FBA two
1. improve Listing ranking, help sellers become characteristic sellers and snatch the shopping cart, enhance customer confidence, increase sales.
2. years of rich experience in logistics, warehouse all over the world, intelligent management (2012 acquisition of robot manufacturing company Kiva Systems).
3. distribution limitation (mostly near the airport fast warehouse)
4. Amazon professional customer service.
5. erase by logistics caused bad disputes.
6. of the unit price more than 300USD products from all FBA logistics cost.

The three advantage of.FBA
1. generally cost more than domestic shipments slightly higher, but it also depends on the weight of the product (especially the third party platform FBA delivery).
2. flexibility (common short board, all overseas positions but the other third parties or overseas positions can have special Chinese customer to deal with some problems in FBA, but only with the English and customer communication, and communicate by email reply not to the third party warehouse overseas customer service so in a timely manner).
3. if the work is not done, the label scanning problem will affect the storage of goods, and even into the library.
4. return address only support the United States (if you do the site's FBA).

Four. Amazon Express warehousing operation
The recipient company AMAZON (Amazon) or FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon: the Amazon to provide goods and services); AMAZON (Amazon) is an Internet e-commerce company, is not really the ultimate recipient, so Amazon will not assist in the clearance of goods and the payment of taxes and other affairs. So in addition to the need for the recipient into the Amazon Amazon, also need a customs clearance agent or local recipient companies or individuals, or Amazon goods may be returned, resulting in high costs.

Reflected in our invoice shows, AMAZON SHIP TO, The customs clearance agent or other company for SOLD TO. Please note that the SHIP TO marked, avoid mistakes.

The shipment problem is mainly reflected in the tax and customs clearance. In order to avoid express problems, please make sure the sender processing shipments in accordance with the following requirements.

In 1. the sender shipping goods, and the importer shall coordinate the customs clearance and sign issues, ensure that after the arrival of the goods at the local customs clearance, contact with the service provider or the customs clearance agent handling shipment clearance.
2. shipping invoice must indicate the true importer (buyer or customs clearance agent) company name, address, contact person and contact information (phone, mobile phone and e-mail).
3. because AMAZON is not any customs clearance and customs prepaid services, in order to avoid the retention of goods as a result of the tariff issue, please confirm the tariff payment sent goods before the proposed tariff prepaid or third party payment tariff.
4. the sender shall import shipment receipt of coordination, as soon as possible to confirm whether the goods arrived in good condition and warehouse delivery, in order to avoid missing, wrong collection etc.. If due to mistaken charging, the importer or the recipient fails or is unable to provide detailed information to parcel service providers could not be investigated, may cause the shipment cannot claim, then all the responsibilities and costs will be sent by party. Need to have the Amazon warehousing label, if the label missing, will not be able to scan warehousing.

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