New Requirement: Country of Origin information required for your products
After August 22, sellers are required to provide Country of Origin (COO) information for all product listings. This ensures FBA Export orders are sent across the UK-EU border smoothly and improves quality of product listings.
This change will have the following impact on your listings:
- New listings: You will be unable to create new listings without selecting your products COO information from the drop-down menu.
- Existing listings You will be unable to edit existing listings until you have provided COO information.
These changes will come into effect after August 22, 2021. Please be sure to update COO information for your products before this date.
Amazon is continuously working to improve the Add a Product tool. These efforts include improving listing quality and consistency within our detail pages to enable sellers to describe their products better. This also increases customer confidence in making more informed purchasing decisions.
In addition, although Pan-EU FBA and EFN are no longer operating across the UK-EU border, our FBA Export program continues to function. This allows EU customers to visit the Amazon.co.uk website and UK customers to visit EU stores and order products direct to their home address on the opposite side of the border.
For more information, go to Providing Country of Origin information for your products.
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Seller_Nprc5XWvdLYk9
One important point,
we have a series of products we sell which are made in the UK
but another seller has contributed the country of origin as China
this is what appears on the customer facing pages.
we have tried repeatedly to get this corrected - keep being told ‘it is brand registered’ ‘only the brand owner can make these changes’
But of course once again it was not the brand owner who uploaded (and had accepted) this incorrect data.
Can you please assure us that the data we upload for country of origin (COO) is separate from the data shown to customers and cannot be corrupted by ‘bad players’
As we are not in control of the page but obviously in control of the correct origin data
Seller_77IcbQKVGdZo0
Can you confirm if we don’t edit existing listings then they stay active and are not suppressed because the COO has not been entered?
That the only requirement is to add the COO when you amend an existing listing or create a new one?
It will be quite a job to go through all our listings and enter the correct COO. To do this accurately we would have to go through each stock item and check against the original paperwork or the item the exact country of origin.
Also if the we didn’t set the listing up in the first place do we have the ability to set the COO?
Also occasionally we have the same product from a UK supplier but it is sometimes made in India and sometimes in Bangladesh. What do we set for the COO then or do we need a different SKU for each COO?
Seller_KQwXr5kY5oIPO
We ship UK only and MFN so I guess we don’t need to worry about this then?
Seller_oGFKRixtdkjxL
So what happens when manufacturer’s switch production sites over time or have multiple production lines in different countries?
Seller_snWsqDJGqg4sY
In my naivety and reading of the email,I understood it to be where it was being sent from…am I wrong?
Seller_sFEUMUfeW5484
Can you please define “edit”, does that apply to inventory, in/out of stock etc. So for example, an item goes out of stock, we use a third party system, it then goes back in stock 2 weeks later, will the update to stock levels be blocked?
Seller_nT7psArrIHc2I
More detailed. Looks like everyone has to do this even if you don’t use FBA. And it isn’t just where you are sending from either…
"‘Rules of origin determine where your goods originate from and which goods are covered in preference agreements. This means that the origin is the economic nationality of goods being imported and exported (where they have been produced or manufactured). It is not just where they have been shipped or bought from. If two or more countries are involved in the production, the goods are deemed to have originated in the country or territory where they were last substantially worked or processed.’
If you are still unsure about which country you should use as the SKU’s COO, please directly contact your suppliers who are best placed to support you or a customs broker."
What a complete waste of time for those of us not selling outside the UK.
Seller_sFEUMUfeW5484
Heres one list, but from above you are saying this is NOT what Amazon are using.
Seller_N8sdIVWmCyj2a
So as I’m selling used CDs, does anyone know if I’m I supposed put GB as that’s where I’m selling from and the CDs are U.K. editions or am putting where the cd is manufactured? Because a lot of the CDs say “Made in the EU”
