#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [E-commerce Morning News on April 8]

      #Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [E-commerce Morning News on April 8] Evening News: Aurora Big Data: BOSS Direct Recruitment Daily Active Users Rank First of the Recruitment Platform; Amazon will fully pay European VAT on its behalf from July 1 this year; Kuaishou E-commerce will distribute 50 million exposure resources to support the resumption of Yunnan live streaming and sales bases.

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E-commerce newsletter

1. News says Taobao’s original paid marketing tool “Three Treasures and One Coupon” will be changed to free

      According to 36Kr, Taobao's "Shop Treasure", "Single Product Treasure", "Pair Treasure" and "Coupon" will be changed to free in the near future. The change is applicable to all merchants on Taobao. Sources also said that for merchants who have paid to purchase, clear refund rules will be formulated in the details at that time. It is worth mentioning that Alipay recently announced that the free cash withdrawal service for Alipay has been extended for another 3 years, and there is no single transaction limit or single-day limit to further support small merchants to reduce costs and increase efficiency. (E-commerce News)

2. Kuaishou e-commerce distributes 50 million exposure resources to support the rebroadcast of Yunnan live streaming and sales base

      According to April 7, in order to support the Yunnan live e-commerce industry affected by the epidemic, Kuaishou E-commerce distributed a total of nearly 50 million exposed traffic resources to three local live e-commerce bases in Yunnan to support the local live e-commerce live broadcast in the future. (Yibang Power)

3. About 1,300 stores in China Resources Vanguard are connected to Dada Express Delivery to ensure instant delivery of orders



      According to April 7, Dada Express, a leading domestic local instant delivery platform under Dada Group, recently reached an in-depth logistics cooperation with China Resources Vanguard, a domestic supermarket retail giant, CR Vanguard. The official APP, mini program orders of about 1,300 CRV Vanguard stores, as well as orders from JD.com, are fully connected to Dada Express Quanxinda service.

      Dada Express Quanxinda Service is a service upgrade project for chain brands launched by Dada Express. Up to now, it has served many well-known chain brands including CR Vanguard, Sam Member Store, McDonald's, KFC, Zhen Kung Fu, Baiguoyuan, Zunbao Pizza, Yuanzu Food Cake, Quanyuantang, Naixue's Tea and other well-known chain brands. (Yibang Power)

4. Xianyu strengthens rental management: will remove or delete illegal housing information

      On April 7, Xianyu issued the "Notice on Further Strengthening the Management of Xianyu Rentals". The announcement pointed out that Xianyu strengthens rental management and will take penalties such as removing or deleting housing information, reducing rights or blocking housing information, and restricting release for acts that violate the release requirements. (Yibang Power)

Cross-border newsletter

5. Online grocery delivery platform GreenDropShip reaches cooperation with Shopify

      April 7 news, according to foreign media reports, the online grocery delivery platform GreenDropShip has reached the latest cooperation with Shopify, becoming the first direct grocery sales application software in the Shopify App Store. Allen Kaplun, co-founder of the grocery forwarding company, said the platform forwarding service provides Shopify merchants with seamless automated operations, saving sellers time and thousands of dollars in development costs. It is reported that in addition to Shopify, GreenDropShip's partners also include WooCommerce, Amazon and eBay. GreenDropShip's official website shows that the company was founded in the United States in 2012 and provides partner sellers with more than 20,000 products from 3,318 brands. (E-commerce News)

6. AliExpress: Canvas shopping bags' turnover in March increased by 91% year-on-year

      According to Yien.com, a global AliExpress survey shows that one of the main trends in environmentally friendly shopping is that sellers have a strong interest in canvas shopping bags. In March, the turnover of such commodities increased by 91% year-on-year. And, among the most popular shopper models for Russian sellers, there are canvas bags with molded patterns that can withstand 10 kg loads. A consumer spends an average of 700-800 rubles on canvas bags. (Cross-border knowledge)

7. Amazon will pay European value-added tax on its behalf starting from July 1 this year

      According to the news on April 7, according to Yien.com, last night, Amazon sent an email to some sellers titled "Instructions on Changes to the EU E-commerce VAT from July 1, 2021". The platform said that starting from July 1, 2021, 27 EU countries will implement new VAT rules for e-commerce sales, which will have an impact on sellers selling goods to EU consumers through online malls such as Amazon. The specific change for this time is: Starting from July 1, Amazon will charge and pay value-added tax on sellers' sales of B2C products on Amazon Mall. The applicable circumstances are: the goods are sent from the EU address to the EU seller, but the company registered address of the seller (sales partner) is not within the EU; the goods are sent directly from non-EU addresses to the EU seller, and the shipment value does not exceed 150 euros. These shipments must comply with specific customs declaration and labeling requirements.

      At the same time, small imported parcels worth no more than 22 euros are no longer exempt from VAT. Starting from July 1, all imported e-commerce parcels will be subject to VAT regardless of their value.

      The current tax amount for remote sales in the EU will be activated, with the new tax amount of 10,000 euros, which is applicable to the entire EU. This does not apply to sales outside the country where the seller's company is registered, nor does it apply to sales that Amazon needs to charge and pay VAT on behalf of others.

Amazon also said the EU will launch an optional VAT filing process called "Union One Stop Stop" ("Union-OSS"). With this simplified filing procedure, sales partners with registered addresses in the EU can uniformly declare VAT for their remote sales throughout the EU in their member states.

      It is worth mentioning that the above changes will not affect the sale or delivery of goods to EU B2B buyers. In such sales, current VAT filing requirements in the EU region will continue to apply. Sellers are still required to meet the VAT registration requirements for the EU countries where they hold their inventory. In addition, Amazon began collecting and paying value-added tax on the UK site as early as January this year. (E-commerce News)

8. The eBay UK site launches eBay fulfillment by Orange Connex event

      On April 7, the eBay platform released the eBay Fulfillment UK warehouse activity [1] (hereinafter referred to as the announcement) on April 7.

The announcement stated that in order to cooperate with sellers to use eBay fulfillment by Orange Connex to promote business growth in the UK, eBay sincerely invites sellers to participate in the eBay fulfillment by Orange Connex event on the eBay UK site to improve buyer logistics experience, improve product transaction rates, and have the opportunity to receive rewards.

      The announcement shows that the event time is from 00:00 on April 1, 2021 to 23:59 on June 30, 2021. The event website is an eBay UK site. This event is applicable to all sellers who join eBay fulfillment by Orange Connex in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

      In addition, every package that belongs to eBay transactions and ships with eBay fulfillment by Orange Connex UK warehouses will receive a reward of USD 1.1 per package during the event. Each item whose account meets the above conditions will receive a reward of more than $100 during the event. The total reward amount received by each eligible account should not be worth more than $10,000.

eBay will verify the authenticity of the account's transactions during the event after the event is completed. If there is any fraud, once discovered, eBay will cancel the account's qualification to receive rewards. If the reward has been issued, the seller participating in the event promises and agrees to return the rewards received to eBay. (E-commerce News)

Internet news

9. Hello Travel launches Hello electric vehicles officially enter the field of production and sales of electric bicycles

      On April 7, Hello Travel announced the launch of Hello Electric Vehicles, officially entering the field of electric vehicle production and sales from the field of shared travel. The three electric cars launched for ordinary consumers this time are Hello A80, Hello B80 and Hello B86. At the same time, Hello also released Hello VVSMART super connected car machine system. Hello official said that Hello Motorcycle will adopt a new retail model, place orders online and pick up cars offline, and the store will have a unified price. It is reported that the range of Hello electric vehicles exceeds 70 kilometers, the full charge capacity only takes 1 hour, and the charging and discharging can reach more than 2,000 times. (E-commerce News)

10. Aurora Big Data: BOSS Direct Recruitment Daily Active Users Rank First Recruitment Platform

      On April 7, Aurora Big Data released the "Vertical Deepening of the Change of User Behaviors in the Industry - 2020 Mobile Internet Report under the Epidemic". The report shows that due to the impact of the epidemic, job hunting and recruitment behavior in 2020 has shifted from offline to online, and the recruitment and job hunting platform has launched functional modules such as "cloud recruitment, cloud interview" to promote the rapid recovery of the industry. Data shows that since April 2020, the per capita use frequency of BOSS direct recruitment has been around 80, ranking first in the industry; since May 2020, the number of daily active users of BOSS direct recruitment has exceeded that of traditional recruitment platforms, and its daily active users once exceeded 3 million, and it continues to maintain the trend of daily active users of online recruitment APPs. (E-commerce News)