Is the End of 'DDP with Tax Included' Shipping Near? Amazon Europe Mandates MRN and EORI Submission for Pan-EU Inventory Receipts Starting September 1

On August 28, it was reported that Amazon Europe will roll out mandatory new regulations for non-EU sellers enrolled in the Pan-European Fulfillment Program starting September 1. For every shipment sent to any EU FBA warehouse in Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, the Czech Republic and other EU member states, sellers must submit both the MRN (Movement Reference Number, a unique code per shipment) and the seller's own EORI (Economic Operators' Registration and Identification Number, the EU customs identity number). The scope of the requirement has been expanded from France previously to the entire EU, with a 60-day grace period calculated from the date of cargo receipt. If sellers fail to complete the required information after the grace period, they will be directly restricted from creating new shipments bound for the EU. Existing on-sale inventory and in-transit shipments will not be affected, but restocking channels will be cut off.

This new regulation is specifically targeted at sellers who have long relied on 'all-inclusive dual customs clearance with tax' shipping services. These tax-inclusive channels typically use the freight forwarder's VAT for customs clearance, leaving no import records under the seller's name, so sellers naturally cannot obtain the corresponding MRN. If sellers rush to ask their freight forwarders to adjust arrangements last minute, they are highly likely to encounter issues such as entity changes or lost records that lead to inconsistent customs clearance entities. The room for past practices of shipping at low costs and only addressing problems when detected has been almost entirely eliminated, marking a formal overhaul of the customs clearance entry point for Amazon Europe.

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