New lithium battery requirement for FBA sellers
Hi guys! Hope you had a wonderful Christmas!
I would like to ask you guys a question regarding the text below that Amazon posted on the 19th of November 2019 under the ‘‘News’’ section.
''New lithium battery requirement for FBA sellers
Effective January 1, 2020, battery manufacturers and distributors must provide a lithium battery test summary, per a United Nations standard known as UN 38.3. This new global requirement applies to lithium batteries and products containing lithium batteries
When selling on FBA, you are responsible for obtaining this test summary for any ASIN that you sell. Failure to provide this summary may prevent you from selling the product on Amazon. In addition, any units of this ASIN in our fulfilment centres may be disposed of at your expense.
Upload the test summary at “Upload required lithium battery test summary”, which also provides further information.’’
I sell used branded electronics (Sony, Microsoft etc), some of them are still manufactured (as new), some of them are not manufactured anymore, but all of them use batteries 
.
Now, given this new requirement, what do you think I should do?
I was thinking that being big brands, some of the other sellers that sell the items ‘‘New’’ would upload this document, that will apply to the sellers that sell them in used condition.
Is that fair to assume?
With regards to the ones that are not manufactured anymore, I assume I have no chance to get that documentation…no?
Thanks for the help!
0 replies
Seller_ZH0KF88nZ2OHx
Doesn’t anybody have anything to say?
Seller_esvgLzKXw2YAl
To be honest, I really can’t see what you think anyone is going to say.
The requirements are quite clear. If you sell Lithium batteries, you must upload the summary as requested. If you don’t, the listing is likely to be deactivated.
You are responsible for your listing, regardless of whether anyone else sells the same item.
Just because something is no longer manufactured, doesn’t mean you can’t get the documentation. That will obviously depend on the manufacturer, so all you can do is ask them.
But do remember, this is about the batteries and not the item that contains them. So chances are, though the item may no longer be manufactured, the batteries probably are, unless they are specific to said item.
Seller_FUipcCVzsfcJx
I’m wondering the same thing as I stock a similar range of items.
Lenovo, Acer and HP make these documents available on their websites. Since this is a new regulation, other manufacturers may follow suit in January.
I expect Amazon will demand the document from each and every seller rather than once per ASIN.
