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Amazon will begin rejecting inbound FBA shipments as early as May 2025 if HS codes, safety certificates or country‑of‑origin data are missing, exemplified by a...
Helium 10 Blog
Amazon now allows sellers to manage Automate Pricing rules through SP-API, enabling programmatic repricing with price guardrails, bulk SKU enrollment, and...
SP-API Changelog
Effective March 4 2025 the ACCC’s revised toy safety standards are enforced on Amazon AU with zero‑day grace. All toys for children under 36 months must have...
Seller Central News
Amazon's AI shopping assistant Rufus now processes about 275 million daily queries (≈14% of all Amazon searches) and uses the Cosmo engine to rank products...
Advertising API Release Notes
U.S. import duties on Chinese‑origin goods surged to as high as 170% in April 2024, pushing Amazon third‑party sellers—who generate about 60% of marketplace...
Industry News
On 1 February 2024 Amazon removed dozens of listings for trademark and patent violations. Sellers who filed an appeal within 24 hours saw a 70 % reinstatement...
Helium 10 Blog
Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC) launched in early 2022 and opened to all advertisers in 2023, offering a SQL‑style query engine, multi‑touch attribution and...
Helium 10 Blog
In Q1 2024 Amazon began auto‑cancelling VMI purchase orders when tariff rates are pending, while a 10% duty on a $5 product raised landed cost to $5.50 and a...
Helium 10 Blog
Starting April 21 2025, Amazon will require sellers of solar‑eclipse viewing products to upload an ISO 12312‑2 test report and a manufacturer’s declaration...
Seller Central News
TikTok Shop’s new Fulfilled by TikTok (FBT) service requires poly‑mailers, a scannable barcode and a weight cap to keep deliveries under 48 hours....
Helium 10 Blog
Amazon is eliminating dimensional weight from FBA fee calculations for clothing, accessories, backpacks, and handbags, switching to unit-weight-only pricing....
Seller Central News
In early April 2025 Amazon updated its Vine validation logic, ending the low‑price/low‑stock shortcut that let sellers trigger bulk Vine invitations. The...
Helium 10 Blog
Amazon is rolling out two AI systems—COSMO, its intent‑engine, and Rufus, a conversational assistant—that replace keyword‑centric search. COSMO ingests shopper...
Advertising API Release Notes
Effective April 15 2025 Amazon will require Canadian sellers with monthly gross sales over CAD 10,000 to carry a CAD 1 million commercial general liability...
Advertising API Release Notes
Amazon can instantly revoke a Brand Registry, stripping the “Brand Registered” badge and pausing Sponsored Brand ads, which can cause an estimated 30% drop in...
Helium 10 Blog
U.S. duties on Chinese goods have jumped to a combined 145% (125% new duty plus the existing 20% levy). Reuters found 4 out of 5 Chinese sellers plan to quit...
Curated Industry News
The Trump administration’s new tariff package pushes combined duties on Chinese‑origin goods to about 145%, with a temporary reduction to 30% starting...
Curated Industry News
U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports jumped to 125% (up from 104%), prompting 20‑50% price hikes on Amazon listings. A Reuters poll of 3,000 sellers shows 80% plan...
Industry News
On April 9 2025 the US imposed a 104% duty on most China‑origin goods and ended the $800 de‑minimis exemption on May 1 2025. At the same time Amazon opened the...
Helium 10 Blog
Amazon’s 2024 Brand Protection Report shows over 15 million counterfeit items seized in 2023, with AI-driven filters blocking more than 99 % of infringing...
Seller Central News