01. Amazon: Major changes to EU site-wide VAT policy

 

In July 2020, the Council of the European Union made a final resolution to postpone the new value-added tax, which was originally scheduled to be implemented on January 1, 2021, until July 1 this year.

Recently, many sellers have stated that they have received an e-mail titled "Notice for EU e-commerce VAT changes starting July 1, 2021".

The email stated that starting from July 1, 2021, Amazon will implement new VAT rules for e-commerce sales in 27 EU countries/regions (Currently Amazon has developed 7 sites: Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Sweden, the Netherlands), this will have an impact on sellers selling products to EU consumers through online stores such as Amazon.。

 

 

02. AliExpress: Announced the April Reward Policy for AERU's Overseas Warehouse Cainiao Service

 

According to news on April 7th, AliExpress recently issued a notice regarding the "Aeru overseas warehouse rookie distribution service April reward policy" (hereinafter referred to as the announcement). The announcement stated that the Russian overseas warehouse rookie distribution service will continue the original reward policy from April 2021.

Announcement reminds, if you have any questions, you can enter the online customer service. If it’s an official Russian rookie order, you can click on the small bubble icon next to the order to enter the online service in AE-Transaction-International Parcel Order; if it’s a Russian rookie promised to fulfill the order, you can go to the Cainiao Merchant Workbench (BMS)-Service Center, Click "Online Service" and select "AE Overseas Warehouse Certification" to enter the online service. Customer service hours are from Monday to Sunday from 9:00 to 18:00. The above effective time is Beijing time.

 

 

03. eBay: eBay fulfillment by Orange Connex activity launched in the UK

 

On April 7th, the eBay platform announced the eBay Fulfillment UK warehouse activity [1] (hereinafter referred to as the announcement) on April 7.

The announcement stated that in order to cooperate with sellers to use eBay fulfillment by Orange Connex to promote business growth in the UK, eBay cordially invites sellers to participate in the eBay fulfillment by Orange Connex activity on eBay UK site to improve buyer’s logistics experience, increase merchandise turnover rate, and have the opportunity to obtain reward.

eBay will verify the authenticity of the account’s transactions during the event after the event ends. If fraudulent acts are found, eBay will cancel the account’s eligibility for rewards. If the rewards have been issued, the sellers participating in the event promise and agree to return the rewards to eBay.

 

 

04. Wish: The "Exposure" and "Product Exposure" indicators on the "Performance" page will change the calculation method

 

Wish recently issued an announcement stating that the "exposure" and "product exposure" indicators on the "performance" page will change the calculation method to reflect the correct data. The original text is as follows:

Starting from April 12, 2021 UTC time, the calculation method of the "Exposure" and "Product Exposure" indicators on the "Performance"> "Product Overview", "Sales Performance" and "Sales Chart" pages on the merchant platform will be changed To display the correct data.

This change may have a slight impact on the historical data of the above two indicators and the "Buy" button click-through rate indicator.

Please note that this is only a change in the data report and will not affect the display of the product on the Wish app and wish.com.