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Fulfilment between the EU and the United Kingdom
Expand your e-commerce business across the EU-UK border.
Selling across the border opens up a whole new world beyond your home marketplace. By tapping into new marketplaces, you have the chance to expand your customer reach and grow your sales. Amazon provides multiple solutions to make growing your FBA business easier than ever.
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Learn more about the European fulfilment network between the UK and the EU.
Local Inbounding into the UK and EU and Remote Fulfilment from the UK and EU
Amazon offers two solutions to help you sell across the EU and UK borders seamlessly: Remote Fulfilment and Local Inbounding.
Local Inbounding into the UK and EU
Remote Fulfilment
Local Inbounding into the UK and EU means shipping your inventory to both your primary (e.g. EU) and secondary (e.g. UK) FBA networks. This allows you to store inventory locally in both regions, benefit from local fulfilment fees and provide the fastest possible delivery to customers across the EU and UK marketplaces. Our all-in-one solutions for brokerage, transportation and indirect representation make this process easy.
Remote Fulfilment allows you to sell across the EU-UK customs border without having to store inventory in the destination marketplace or register for VAT there. Simply send your FBA inventory to your local fulfilment centres and Amazon will be responsible for collecting and remitting VAT when handling cross-border orders on your behalf.
Advantages of Local Inbounding:
Local fulfilment fees in both regions
Faster delivery times for customers
Advantages of Remote Fulfilment:
Save on storage and VAT registration in destination country
Flexible fulfilment from existing FBA inventory
Amazon handles VAT collection and remittance
What is the difference between Local Inbounding into the UK and EU and Remote Fulfilment from the UK and EU?
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Local Inbounding
Remote Fulfilment
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How to get started with Local Inbounding into the UK and EU:
Get VAT compliant by registering a valid VAT number in each country you plan to store inventory.
Identify the products you want to sell cross border. Update the Automated Pricing Rules in the Build International Listings tool for local fees.
Enrol in Amazon Customs Clearance and Shipping Services to ship inventory between the UK and EU.
How to get started with Remote Fulfilment:
On the Seller Central home page, go to Inventory → Remote Fulfilment with FBA → Marketplace Enrolment → Enrol in Remote Fulfilment.
Select the products you want to list and use the European Expansion Accelerator page to choose the stores where you want to sell your products via the Remote Fulfilment programme.
Understand the Remote Fulfilment fees and how they differ from standard FBA fees.
Frequently asked questions:
How do I estimate revenue and costs for cross-border selling?
Use the FBA Revenue Calculator to input your product details and shipping costs. It will provide a cost comparison between standard FBA, Remote Fulfilment between the UK and EU, and Pan-EU FBA, accounting for differences in fees and cross-border shipping.
What compliance requirements do I need to be aware of?
Before adding products, ensure they comply with product safety and compliance policies, environmental regulations and Amazon's policies. This includes providing the necessary compliance documentation.
While Local Inbounding into the UK and EU, how do I manage cross-border brokerage and transportation?
Amazon Customs Clearance and Shipping Services provides an all-in-one solution for the brokerage, indirect representation and transportation services required to send cross-border shipments. This allows you to easily expand your reach to millions of new customers across the border.
How can I ship products from China?
With Amazon Global Logistics, you can ship ocean cargo from China directly to the Amazon fulfilment network in the US, UK and EU.
What countries can I sell to using Remote Fulfilment?
You will be able to sell products on the arcs between the UK and Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the Netherlands.
How do returns work with Remote Fulfilment?
Remote Fulfilment customer returns are handled the same way as local FBA returns. If a customer returns an imported item, we’ll send it back to your source fulfilment centre in the EU/UK, subject to customer returns policy and fees.
How does the Build International Listings tool help with cross-border selling?
The Build International Listings tool allows you to synchronise offer prices and create/translate offers from a single source store to one or more target stores. This makes it easy to replicate your listings to additional Amazon stores and manage your offers in one marketplace.
How does the European Expansion Accelerator support the Remote Fulfilment programme?
The European Expansion Accelerator (EEA) is an automated end-to-end expansion solution that enrols your products into fulfilment programmes, translates and creates your listings, sets pricing and shipping settings in the stores you select.
For expansion between the EU and UK stores and vice versa, EEA will automatically enrol your account into the Remote Fulfilment programme between the EU and UK, enable export settings, identify your eligible products for the programme and create detail pages for these items to make them purchasable.
For expansion between the EU and UK stores and vice versa, EEA will automatically enrol your account into the Remote Fulfilment programme between the EU and UK, enable export settings, identify your eligible products for the programme and create detail pages for these items to make them purchasable.
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