If you don’t understand these rules before selecting products, your account will be in danger!

At the beginning of the new year, many Amazon sellers should start preparing for the new year's product selection, or have completed product selection and are ready to put products on the shelves.

However, it should be noted that some products cannot be sold just because you want to. Each major Amazon site has its own restricted products. If you violate Amazon's restricted product policy, you may face the consequences of removal of sales privileges, destruction of inventory, or freezing of sales proceeds.

Amazon Global Selling recently updated the restricted product rules for four sites in the United States, Japan, Europe and Australia.

Among them, in the United States, there are very strict standards for being recognized as degradable plastic products:

Global Store Opening also pointed out that if you claim that your plastic products are biodegradable as a selling point in your product listing, and you do not obtain certification, then such claims are likely to trigger a product review.

Do not blindly publish descriptions of such products without passing relevant biodegradable standards certification, for example:

biodegradable (biodegradable), degradable (degradable), decomposable (decomposable), breakdown (decomposable), compost (compost).

Never publish relevant keywords in the product details page at will , so as to avoid false advertising that misleads consumers and thus constitutes a trade violation.

On Amazon’s help page, there are descriptions of “restricted products” and corresponding penalties.

(Screenshot of Amazon’s restricted product rules)

Here’s what Amazon says about the penalties for violating Amazon’s restricted products policy:

It can be seen that the consequences of violating Amazon's restricted products are very serious. In addition, Amazon has detailed descriptions of the "restricted products" in each category. Sellers who need to know more can click at the end of the article to read the original text.

(Screenshot of Amazon’s restricted product categories)

However, some sellers sell such restricted products. If Amazon detects that your listing contains some sensitive words, you will be required to undergo a classification review before you can sell it when you put it on the shelf or after you have been selling it for a period of time.

So, what are the general and rigid requirements for classification review?

The above items are the basic hard requirements for different categories. In addition, different product categories also have specific requirements related to them.

Requirements for relevant materials for classification review:

Of course, the information required for each category on each site may not be the same, and the information mentioned above is not absolute. The specific situation still depends on the requirements of each category of Amazon.