This is not unsurprising but worrying for UK sellers on Amazon:
Amazon FBA Brexit Bombshell – EFN and Pan-European FBA ends for UK
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The Amazon FBA Brexit bombshell has dropped which will significantly impact your Amazon business from the 1st of January 2021. Amazon’s UK FBA operations will be split from the EU with no more EFN (European Fufilment Network) and an end to Pan-European FBA inventory transfers between the UK and EU.
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At the end of the transition period, the Amazon marketplace will effectively no longer allow you to continue stocking in the UK and selling into Europe (or vice versa) as you can today.
Some comments from those affected:
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This was to be expected and is just a logical consequence of Brexit. The people voted for it, now the people can have at it. Smaller companies that rely on exports to the EU (no matter what channel), will be damaged by this. This has been made clear for years. Importing and exporting post Brexit won’t be easy and straight forward as advertised by the “winners”.
I stopped arguing against Brexit after the general election. They won, so they can own it now. My company will suffer as well (we rely on imports, so face huge costs and delays due to customs), but we will be able to cope. In worst case we will need to downsize our workforce and increase pricing.
Customs declarations are a massive PITA and quite complex (and expensive – it’s not as simple as just supplying a few custom codes and country of origin information). So I am not surprised that Amazon has no interest in sorting this for a random British seller who wants to sell a few units to Europe.
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Not a bombshell, just a logical and legal decision arising from Brexit. AMAZON and all others suppliers will have to take the same decision: creating a restricted market from a large common one.
Brexit means severance from the EU free market, regaining UK’s sovereignty and installing new commerce conditions which will be inferior as UK won’t part of the EU and its customs zone.
The only bombshell: taking four years to discover that.
See the bright side, AMAZON may create a new zone uniting UK, Australia and NZ. It those two countries don’t see that as an infringement of their sovereignty.
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