Selling on Amazon.com

Sourcing for Inventory & Shipping

Progress Report

  Sign up on Amazon.com

Spreecast for Amazon.com signup Dec.10th, 2pmEST

  US Telephone number

  Configuring Settings in Seller Central

  Adding Ship From Address and Return Address

Product Sourcing Considerations   Locally in my country

  Sourcing from a different Country

  Sourcing Online

  Does the products have Barcodes

  Price + Shipping + Duties and Taxes

Product Sourcing Locally

From a Different Country

  Contacting a supplier

  Negotiating Rates

  Shipping Cost

  Fulfillment / Prep Service (Building relationship)

  Preparing Amazon Shipment (Ship From Address)

Tools for Online Shopping

Priceblink (Comparison Shopping Add-on

CamelCamelCamel.com (Price History)

Keepa.com

Slickdeals.net

Fatwallet.com

Sourcing Online

  Product lookup on Amazon.com

  Doing comparison shopping on sites such as Target.com. Walmart.com, Kmart.com, ebay.com Kohls.com

  Have items shipped to a prep service, or friend or family member in the US, to be forwarded to Amazon

Actual Product

Product on Amazon

Shipping Couriers

  DHL or UPS for Larger Shipments- contact local agent to set up account, ask for discounted rates based on volume, POA on File

  Parcel Mail (snail mail), EMS or Fedex

-  www.emspost.com

-  Trial shipment via EMS…20lbs or less, no customs document required for the US

DHL Airway Bill

EMS Form

Local Customs Restrictions

  Research local export requirements/restrictions

  Do you need exporters license or certificate?

  Investigate export restrictions on particular product eg weight or value restrictions

  Research export agreements with the US and duty free agreements between local country and the US eg. NAFTA, CARIFORUM

US Customs Restrictions

  Review restrictions on test product

  US Tax ID requirements for customs brokering

  FDA approval

-  Prior notice on food and drugs

-  Restrictions on foods

-  Recalls

Prior Notice -  Create account

-  Create Web Entry

-  Create Prior Notices

www.FDA.gov

Preparing Commercial Invoice Include:

Weight per unit

Full Description of Goods

Tax ID/VAT Number

Unit Value

Quantity

Country of Origin

Commercial Invoice must correspond with Declared Value on Airway Bill

Commercial Invoice

QnA Session

  Shipping Regulations for my Country?