FBA warehouse shipments were confiscated! Be careful when selling these products

News about an FBA warehouse broke out these two days. The Brazilian regulatory agency directly inspected the local FBA warehouse and confiscated 5,700 products in the name of non-compliant sales!

Last Friday, Anatel, Brazil's telecommunications regulator, raided a local FBA operations center and found about 5,700 illegal products, including wireless headphones, portable batteries and smartphone chargers, among nearly 70,000 items sampled. According to regulations, products in these categories must obtain the mandatory radio frequency product certification issued by Anatel before they can enter the market. The more than 5,700 products seized and confiscated did not obtain this certification, so compulsory measures were taken.

According to Anatel statistics, if these illegal products were sold normally, the total value would be close to US$100,000. Although the value is not high, Anatel believes that directly confiscating illegal products from warehouses can give Amazon and third-party sellers sufficient warnings, thereby preventing uncertified RF products from entering the Brazilian market.

Cross-border sellers have heard about the strict certification of radio frequency products, but it is rare for the certification body to directly conduct surprise inspections of FBA warehouses and confiscate illegal products. There is no problem that illegal products cannot enter the market. European stations cannot sell products without CE certification, but I have never heard of products being directly seized from warehouses and returned due to logistics problems.

It is not necessarily safe to store products in FBA warehouses. The United States has previously conducted random inspections of FBA inventory products.

Previously, there was an incident with small cards on the US site, saying that US regulators would randomly check shipments in warehouses to see if there were any review request cards.

That is to say, in addition to Amazon's own spot checks on product violations, relevant regulatory agencies will also conduct spot checks, and will deal with any violations or illegalities found. The only difference from this case is that your products will not be directly confiscated, but they will be more decent and block your account/product link, giving sellers the opportunity to deal with inventory products and even store balances.

The small card incident caused a lot of controversy at the time. Amazon closed nearly tens of thousands of stores, many of which were big sellers. Even top sellers like Zebao and Aojie were not spared.

In addition to the media reports, Amazon's self-inspection of the packages in the FBA warehouse is definitely one of the important evidences. You can think divergently, since Amazon and relevant agencies can indeed find illegal products in the warehouse, then things like Brazilian agencies seizing uncertified product stocks are theoretically justifiable in the United States.

At present, inflation in the United States is extremely serious. The entire country is in a state of shortage of various materials. Many situations that have never happened before are happening. I suggest that you should not be lucky when sending goods to overseas FBA warehouses. You should protect the necessary certifications and necessary information. The Brazilian Amazon incident is a lesson for us.