Country of Origin information required for your products

I’ve just received this email:

Does anyone know if this affects:

A: Books and Magazines
B: Sellers that only sell in the UK

After August 22, 2021, Country of Origin (COO) information will become a mandatory requirement to improve the quality of Amazon listings and to ensure that FBA Export orders are sent across the UK-EU border smoothly.

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.

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. We request you to ensure that you have updated Country of Origin information ahead of this date.

What is Country of Origin (COO)?

Country of Origin (COO) rules require businesses to state the country where their goods originate in order to clear customs. Following the end of the transition period, all EU-exporting businesses to the UK and UK-exporting businesses to the EU will be required to provide COO information. The COO of a product is the country where the product was wholly obtained or manufactured. If more than one country is involved in the product’s production or manufacture, the COO is where the last “substantial transformation” of the product occurred.