How is Amazon's US storage fee charged? What does Amazon storage mean?

There are many sites on the Amazon platform, and the US site is a common one. If you open a store on the Amazon US site, you need to understand the storage fees of the Amazon US site. Do you know how the storage fees of the Amazon US site are charged?

How is Amazon's US storage fee charged?

1. Calculation formula for overseas warehousing fees: Overseas warehousing fees = first-leg freight + warehousing and handling fees + local delivery fees.

2. First-leg freight: the freight incurred from China to overseas warehouses.

3. Storage and handling fees: storage fees incurred when goods are stored in overseas warehouses and handling fees incurred before the warehouse distributes the goods.

4. Local delivery fee: Local delivery fee refers to the local express delivery fee incurred when the goods are delivered in the country and region of the delivery location.

5. On the 15th of each month, Amazon Logistics will conduct an inventory count and charge long-term storage fees for goods stored in Amazon warehouses for more than 365 days. Taking Amazon US as an example, the charging standards are as follows:

6. A long-term storage fee of USD 6.90 per cubic foot or USD 0.15 per item (whichever is greater) will be charged.

What does Amazon warehousing mean?

FBA is Amazon warehouse delivery, but this FBA starts with the delivery of goods to Amazon warehouses. Amazon will not be responsible for the transportation from China to Amazon warehouses abroad, so what you need to consider is the FBA first leg.

Amazon is not responsible for customs clearance and delivery services from China to Amazon warehouses. FBA first-leg service refers to shipping goods from China to Amazon warehouses. There are special services to meet this demand.

FBA sea freight first leg: sea freight + local customs clearance + destination country delivery, the time limit is slightly longer. The full price does not include tax, about 1000 yuan per cubic meter. The United States and the United Kingdom are cheaper, and Canada is more expensive.

This type of sea freight takes a long time, usually more than a month, and is delivered to Amazon by trailer, which usually requires a warehouse appointment, and the operation is more complicated than express delivery. But the price is cheap. If you calculate it based on 1CBM=167kg, it is only a few yuan per kg, which is cheaper than the express delivery of more than 30 yuan per kg.

For 10 boxes of 20kg goods, the express delivery cost is about 6,000, but the sea freight is estimated to be less than 2,000, but the time limit is long, which is suitable for non-urgent replenishment. Many sellers are using overseas warehouses, but it is still recommended to put the more popular products that do not need to be overstocked into overseas warehouses, after all, the cost of overseas warehouses is indeed not cheap.

Many Amazon sellers use the overseas warehouse delivery model. This can save some costs. Merchants need to pay attention to understand the fees. Because these aspects may cost a lot of money, I hope to solve everyone's problems.

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