Another wave of sanctions after the sweater war, this time targeting our cross-border e-commerce...

▲The sweater war has not yet been resolved

Every day a large number of parcels are sent through the post office.

The price of "Made in China" is much lower than that of the United States.

Delivered to American consumers

These high-quality and low-priced products have caused a sharp drop in sales of domestic American goods

And ironically, because of the UPU agreement

The United States also needs to provide assistance to these developing countries (China)

Reduced postal charges for products

I believe that after reading this, everyone knows Trump

Why do we keep asking for postal rates to rise?

And called on the Universal Postal Union to cancel its preferential policies towards China

So that it has developed into the current "withdrawal" incident

▲As early as early September, Trump intended to take action against the postal service

▲Some time ago, a proposal for postal price increases was announced

But will the Universal Postal Union really be launched?

At present, both sides still have room for maneuver and negotiation.

The White House press secretary said in a statement

If the UPU can accept the conditions proposed by the United States

The United States will still cancel the withdrawal process

This condition must be related to whether China can enjoy

It's about the preferential policies of the Universal Postal Union for developing countries.

So whether the United States leaves the Universal Postal Union or not

The cost increase for our cross-border sellers is a foregone conclusion.

With postal service as the main logistics channel

Sellers on platforms such as Wish and eBay are the first to be affected

The profit margin itself is not high, and the logistics cost will increase

The only way is to transfer this cost to consumers.

Faced with Chinese products that have lost their price advantage (or even become a disadvantage)

What the American people will choose is self-evident.

For Amazon sellers

Those most affected are naturally

The product has low unit price, low weight and small size

Sellers who sell their products in bulk through low-cost postal parcel delivery

The postal service is no longer dominant

The entire operation route and even the product itself have to start over.

As for Amazon sellers using FBA

Of course, joking is joking

The increase in postal costs will more or less increase the cost of FBA

Although sellers’ FBA fees have not increased

But when Amazon is overwhelmed

This cost will eventually be passed on to the seller.

This is also another reminder from the platform to third-party sellers.

The era of using price wars to increase sales and rankings is coming to an end

Although the products currently affected are those with a unit price of around US$10

The increase in logistics costs will eventually radiate to all sellers

In addition, the platform costs are increasing.

The traditional model of distributing goods and Sku and self-delivery will only make you poorer and poorer

The future of Amazon will be an era of competition in refined operations

Whoever has the highest profit margin will have the last laugh.