Amazon Publishes Guide on Exporting for Retail Businesses

Amazon published a free manual on exporting for retail businesses, entitled “Global Selling with Amazon.” The manual, available only on Amazon’s Kindle e-reader, is a guide “to help sellers expand their business globally by providing an overview of this opportunity, steps that you should take when you expand your business to other marketplaces, and some solutions developed by Amazon to help you sell and fulfill your customer orders,” Amazon said. The manual also includes information on topics including customs; taxation; intellectual property rights; parallel importation; export controls; markings and labels; environmental, health, and safety; and product compliance.