The US is strictly checking multiple consignees, and Amazon sellers are panicking

Just a few days after the National Day holiday, unexpected problems have occurred one after another. Now, major promotional activities in the Q4 peak season such as Halloween and Black Friday are approaching, but Amazon sellers continue to encounter difficulties in logistics.

The United States is strictly investigating multiple consignees. Have any sellers been caught?

Recently, a notice has been flooding the cross-border circle. The notice stated that due to the recent strict inspection of multiple consignees by the US Customs, the company name may be displayed after the SHIP TO (destination) on the FBA label sent to Amazon. If the customs finds out, they will require the corresponding company's importer tax number to complete customs clearance, otherwise there will be a risk of rejection and return.

Amazon sellers who are preparing for the peak season are shocked to see logistics problems again:

“——He’s causing trouble again, how should we deal with him?

——I just saw it today, why is there so much going on during the peak season, I am speechless;

——No shipments have been made recently. I will ask the freight forwarder when the shipment is ready. "

Now, sellers who have shipping needs are worried that they will be caught, and they have followed the freight forwarder's advice to handle the FBA labels as follows:

If the labels have already been printed and contain the company name, you can use a marker to cross it out; if the labels have not yet been printed, you can delete the company name first and then print them in batches.

However, these methods are only for sellers who have not yet shipped the goods. For those sellers who have already shipped the goods but have not yet arrived at the port, these two methods are useless. So now they are very panicked, and they are afraid that they will be the unlucky ones.

In this regard, some sellers said that there is no need to worry too much, because the right of the US Customs to inspect goods is an extremely low probability event that has always existed. "(This time) I guess it is probably another so-called latest news that was forwarded by peers. In fact, it is nothing. It is okay to have the company name on the goods in transit. Just delete the company name and print the label when shipping next time."

He is not the only seller who holds the same view :

A seller in Jiangxi said that DHL had this saying two years ago. As long as the same ship to consignee does not declare more than 800 in one day, it is fine. You can fill in the consignee in the store. Another seller in Zhejiang also said that he also checked it for a short period of time five years ago, and just adapt to the situation.

During this process, a small number of sellers had doubts about the authenticity of the news. They thought that the news might have been fabricated by the freight forwarder, whose main purpose was to raise the freight rate. "The freight forwarders in my circle basically copied from the same circle of friends." said a seller. Although they thought the news was unreliable, they still dared not be careless when it came to the safety of the goods, and they all wanted to wait for a definite answer.

In response to this matter, E-En interviewed some freight forwarders. Most of them said that they got the news from the customs clearance agency, and no customers have encountered such inspections so far. The notice was issued to remind them to be vigilant. Only a small number of freight forwarders said that individual cases have occurred among their peers, but this is not a large-scale incident. "In order to prevent trouble before it happens, the best way is of course to delete the company name." said a freight forwarder.

Some sellers got similar statements from freight forwarders: "One of our freight forwarders sent it, and then we sent it to other freight forwarders, and they said it was not as strict as this."

Interestingly, the freight forwarders who were suspected by the sellers of fabricating false information to raise freight rates have a different view. They believe that the strict inspection by the US Customs this time is actually a clever pretext, and its main purpose is to make money.

So what is the reason behind this strict investigation?

According to information obtained from the freight forwarder, the strict inspection is related to the US T86 customs clearance model. Since October 3, the policy has been tightened again, and goods below US$800 are now strictly inspected. "Currently, the inspection at inland ports is relatively strict, and shipments can be shipped in separate containers to avoid risks." said a freight forwarder.

However, according to the latest news, some freight forwarders believe that the problem of strict inspection involves multiple consignees, while others believe that it is due to the ownership of the goods. However, the solution is to delete or black out the company name on the label. Although it is relatively easy to delete the company name, some sellers are worried that not filling in the company information on the FBA label may cause problems.

In response to this, a freight forwarder stated that under normal circumstances, the FBA label "Ship to" should be followed by Amazon's company and address, and there should be no other company names.

Amazon warehouses are overflowing again, sellers are being squeezed

Before the problems at the first leg are solved, the problem of warehousing at the last leg arises.

The latest situation of Amazon warehouses released by freight forwarders shows that there are abnormalities in warehouse reservations, including ONT8, LGB8, LAX9, SBD1, GRY2, FTW1, ABQ2, and PSC2. It can be seen that in addition to the popular ONT8, ABQ2 and PSC2, two warehouses that were seriously overwhelmed last month, are on the list again.

Specifically, the pallet and flooring contracts of ONT8, LGB8, ABQ2, PSC2, and SBD1 were all abnormal, and LGB8 was even rejected. In addition, SBD1 and PSC2 did not release the flooring contracts, and ABQ2 did not release the pallet and flooring contracts.

When talking about the current warehousing situation a few days ago, a seller complained: "These new warehouses of PSC2 are not very good."

As we all know, Amazon has opened many new warehouses in the United States this year, especially in the western United States. According to sellers' feedback, the new warehouses opened by Amazon mainly include MIT2, GFU3, XLG1, PSC2, ABQ2, FSD1, JOT1, and QXY5.

Amazon's original intention of opening new warehouses was to improve delivery efficiency and alleviate the problem of warehouse overflow. However, these new warehouses were criticized by sellers as "rubbish". The main problems are twofold: one is that the cost is too high; the other is that they are too remote.

Previously, a Shenzhen seller told Yien that their goods were assigned to a new warehouse in northern California, which was very expensive. "Amazon is convenient, but the sellers' costs are indeed increasing day by day."

Some sellers said that when creating shipments now, all kinds of weird warehouses appeared. "I asked the freight forwarder, but they said they couldn't find any." When creating shipments, sellers don't want to encounter these warehouses, but what they fear often comes true. According to feedback, if the seller's shipment is standard parts, the probability of being assigned to these warehouses is still very high.

A seller who has been assigned to these new warehouses for half a month can't help but sigh: "This is too difficult!" He said that if you choose 5 free warehouses, they are often some far and remote warehouses. The first journey takes more than two months, and after arriving at the warehouse, you will be ripped off by Amazon (configuration fee and defect fee). If you choose 3 warehouses, you will be assigned to these new warehouses again. Since you can only use card delivery, the price is very expensive.

Now, these new warehouses are not only remote and expensive, but worse, they are overstocked. For this reason, sellers have said: "It is really a headache."

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