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Brexit Update from Amazon
Amazon just sent the following email regarding Brexit:
This will have the following impact for Amazon Selling Partners from January 1, 2021:
- FBA offers using EFN will not be fulfilled across the UK-EU border
- Pan-European FBA inventory transfers will stop between the UK and EU (however, Pan-European FBA will continue to transfer inventory within the EU region, supporting your sales on Germany, France, Italy and Spain sites)
- To mitigate the impact of these changes, you should consider splitting your inventory and sending it to a fulfilment centre in the UK and the EU , so that you have sufficient stock either side of the new customs border
- This may require you to ship your products across the new UK-EU customs border and provide additional information as part of a customs declaration
What are sellers thoughts? Particularly, if you are currently using Pan-EU what are your plans?
116 replies
Seller_BwGbXWMANPVwV
I have the same question - we are currently using EFN: The recommendation is to arrange for stock to be delivered to one of the EU fulfilment centres to handle marketplace orders. Does anyone know if we then have to set up as Pan-EU to cover the 5 other marketplaces? Or do you run as EFN out of one EU warehouses? And assume the email implies we have to send our stock into this EU warehouse ourselves as we would when sending into UK fulfilment centres? Thanks
Seller_fTHw0bbzSUL9L
I assume that the UK is removed from Pan-EU, so the stop of inventory transfers (what I typically assume to refer to FC transfers) also includes the end of Pan-EU orders (as distinct from EFN) made on EU marketplaces being fulfilled from inventory held in the UK when there is no localised source.
Seller_bj9XKWTiFenUA
Does anyone here in the UK currently hold stock in the EU as well? As in, not through PAN EU, but in your own (i.e. non Amazon) warehouse? How does one decide which country to hold stock in if we want to continue with Pan EU? We will need to ship containers directly from our suppliers in India to the country we choose.
Seller_WDhdcjDfu6Z4g
As a PAN-EU seller, who brings stock into my own warehouse before sending to FBA, this is going to be a real pain. 40% of sales are in the UK, the other 60% in the EU. Can anyone recommend any freight forwarders? They need to be able to store stock and palletise and add shipping labels.
there is no way around this, this is going to add cost. Suddenly I’ll be down to ordering 2 LCL loads instead of one FCL. Will also be a huge pain launching new products.
Seller_pdcJUXggao4CE
I rely on UK FBA FC to receive my shipments, and then I use EFN and Pan European to send to the other EU countries, the reason I need the UK to receive my goods, is because my products are packaged in the English language, and only a UK warehouse could receive this language,
Does anyone else have this issue now, because I won’t be able to send my items to an EU FC?
Thanks!
Seller_n3kq7gcIclCDM
My business is going to be hugely affected by this too. At the moment, everything comes to the UK, is stored here and then goes to Amazon as and when required.
Does anyone know if Amazon have a fulfillment centre in Southern Ireland where goods can enter the PAN-EU network? That’d be the easiest option in terms of the language barrier.
Seller_saK5Ah2SaNYjL
Wow this is going to have huge cost implications if we have to ship directly to EU FCs. Our products are small, cheap but heavy. Currently a box of 36 items (15kg) costs £3.60 to send in. It will cost us over £30 to send the same box to France or Germany.
The whole “hook” that got us using PAN EU was the fact that they distributed products around EU for us at no extra cost. This is a logistical nightmare!
Seller_MKi6wqe68YZuu
I’m really surprised at some of the posts here.
We’ve had four years to get our heads around leaving the EU. Given the cackhanded management of Brexit, we should have prepared for something approaching the worst in our personal and business finances.
And still people are caught with their pants down?
Seller_NoLYurmb006tq
Hi strangely I was just looking at the cost difference to sending stock direct rather than Pan-EU last night.
Sending to a set country did not seem to bad and it cuts costs down compared to EFN - I have a good idea of what qty we sell in each country so going to go this way going forward myself.
Reading the new policy however if you send to DE and use Pan-EU it will move it around all EU using same cost as present.
Seller_iYCrwoyqEYtxD
So - we are currently PAN EU - options are (pls correct me if I am wrong)
- Quit Pan Eu (and fulfill from Uk) -
Will Amazon still do this?
- stop Europe vat where threshold not met (and costs as Simply VAT said these will rise, Poland want a large deposit
- increase postage costs on EFN
Send stock to EU to continue pan eu in Europe
- the listings won’t match? - will we have to create another set of FBA listings for either Europe or UK -
- increased costs of shipping to Eu
- split inventory
- cheaper fba fees for Europe sales
Am I missing anything?
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