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At the press conference of the State Council Information Office on July 13, Li Kuiwen, spokesperson of the General Administration of Customs and Director of the Statistics and Analysis Department, said that the total value of my country’s import and export of goods in the first half of this year was 18.07 trillion yuan, the largest scale in the same period in history. Level, an increase of 27.1% over the same period last year, a positive year-on-year growth for 13 consecutive months, and the development of new business formats such as cross-border e-commerce has entered the fast lane.

 

BigCommerce will integrate with Amazon MCF

Sellers can ship at MCF

（Amazon recently announced that Amazon Multi-Channel Fulfillment (MCF) will be integrated with BigCommerce, and merchants on the platform can complete orders through MCF.

It is understood that this integration allows merchants on BigCommerce to use Amazon's order fulfillment service to handle their e-commerce orders regardless of whether they are selling on Amazon. Sellers only need to send inventory to the Amazon fulfillment center, and then Amazon takes over to complete the order.

 

Amazon Europe will update the self-delivery seller's return and refund policy   

Amazon Europe recently announced that it will update the return and refund policy for self-delivery sellers in Europe in August. It is reported that the new policy will make it easier for self-delivery sellers to process return and refund applications. Sellers can rate the appearance and functional status of returned products to prevent sellers from being affected by bad returns. In addition, the new policy will also help buyers understand the definition of full refund and partial refund.

 

New rule：

Amazon is charging again, and seller costs soar 

Recently, many sellers reported that they received Amazon’s latest "receiving money" email notification. From the content of the email, it can be seen that starting from September 1, 2021, a new advertising management fee may be added to the seller’s Amazon advertising account. In the bill. When advertising is placed in certain countries or regions, or when advertisers purchase advertisements in certain countries or regions, advertising management fees may be included in their bills.

Bezos officially steps down as CEO of Amazon

.On July 5th, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos officially stepped down as Amazon’s chief executive officer, which will be succeeded by Andy Jassy. Amazon will grant Jassy 61,000 shares of Amazon to encourage him to lead the company in the future, and these shares will be cashed out in the next ten years.

 

Amazon and Chewy dominate the pet market

According to foreign media reports, in the US pet e-commerce market, Amazon occupies the highest market share, followed by Chewy, and Wal-Mart in third. These platforms benefit from the expansion of the pet market. Relevant data shows that by 2025, the sales of the entire pet supplies industry will reach 94.6 billion U.S. dollars, and e-commerce sales will account for 53%. Pet food and care products are the categories most frequently purchased online by "shovelers".

Amazon issued a new announcement: new banned list

Amazon Europe announced that it will update its software sales policy. The announcement stated: In the future, only the full retail version of the physical software can be sold on Amazon. It is not allowed to sell privately copied software, downloadable, academic version, or software that the manufacturer does not plan to retail.

Amazon's "purchase and delivery" service achieves three major upgrades

According to the news on July 18, Amazon's global store opening announced yesterday that recently, Amazon's "BuyShipping" service (BuyShipping) ushered in three major upgrades. Among them, in terms of service coverage sites, the service coverage sites are in addition to the original United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and India, as well as Mexico and the Netherlands. Currently, a total of 10 sites can enjoy the "purchase and delivery" service.

eBay USA releases summer consumer trends:

Soaring demand for outdoor products 

Recently, eBay USA released the second Reopen consumer trend report. The report pointed out that with the lifting of the epidemic blockade, eBay consumers have switched from buying large quantities of products such as bread machines and toilets during the epidemic to buying outdoor entertainment products such as beach swimming pools and parties. . Based on eBay’s search and sales data from April to May, the report concludes that the sales of jeans on eBay are 10 times that of sports pants; the sales of beach volleyball have increased by 190% year-on-year, and bocce balls have also increased in the past year; beverage ice Sales of barrels increased by 59% month-on-month, and sales of beach tents more than doubled.