Top Ten Categories Sold On Amazon
Aug 18, 2020
1. The top ten categories of Amazon sales
The report shows that during 2016-2019, the top ten categories of Amazon sales are apparel, home, kitchen appliances, consumer electronics, sports, beauty, furniture, computer peripherals, toys, and wireless devices. Among them, consumer electronics and home equipment continue to incorporate digital and intelligent elements, launching smart bracelets, smart speakers, smart sweeping robots and other products.
Cross-border e-commerce accounts for 20% of global retail e-commerce. This volume is still very large. Although it is still quite different from 2B, the speed of development can also be seen. It has been in a few short years. Such a large-scale development.
In the past five years, China’s export cross-border e-commerce industry and sellers have experienced an evolution from “barbaric growth” to “intensive farming”. With the US model, export cross-border e-commerce is becoming an important support force for China's foreign trade, and it is changing from a'new format' of foreign trade to a'new normal' of foreign trade.
2. Amazon will change the "Amazon Accelerate" conference to online
According to foreign media news, due to the impact of the new crown, Amazon will hold the "Amazon Accelerate" conference online. "Amazon Accelerate" is a discussion meeting to help small third-party sellers to better conduct digital sales, and is one of Amazon's important activities.
Jeff Wilk, CEO of Amazon Global Consumer, said that a lot of money has been invested to help small businesses, especially during the new crown period. Last year, more than 1,800 merchants participated in Amazon Accelerate. Amazon data shows that third-party sellers account for about 60% of Amazon's physical sales.
3. From September 1st, Amazon UK site fees will increase by 2%
On August 13th, Amazon announced that starting from September 1st, UK site fees will increase by 2%, including: referral fees, Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) fees, FBA storage fees and Multi-Channel Fulfillment (MCF) fees.
Earlier reports stated that from April 1, 2020, the British government will levy a 2% digital service tax on Amazon. Although Amazon will not require sellers to pay in full within the first five months, obviously this part of the cost will be transferred to the seller.
The UK digital service tax is mainly aimed at search engines, social media service platforms and online trading large technology companies that benefit from British users. If the company's global revenue exceeds 1.5 billion pounds, and 25 million of which are from UK users, it will be required to pay a 2% digital service tax.
4. "Zero Tolerance" territory expands further, Amazon's fight against counterfeiting goes further
Amazon announced the Project Zero project (Zero Tolerance Program) to cover 7 major sites around the world, including Australia, Brazil, the Netherlands and so on. So far, the Project Zero project has covered 17 Amazon sites worldwide. Obviously, with the expansion of Amazon's Zero Tolerance Program, Amazon's governance of counterfeit goods has also gone further.
In March last year, the Project Zero project was first launched in the United States. It uses three tools: automatic protection systems, automatic anti-counterfeiting systems, and product serialization services, and uses cutting-edge knowledge of brand-owned intellectual property rights to realize product counterfeiting and infringement. discovered in time. (Source: Something about foreign trade)
