Hello from Fulfillment by Amazon,

We are writing to notify you of the changes to Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) fees in the Amazon.co.jp marketplace.

2018 was another year of our continued efforts to better serve you and our mutual customers. As the year draws to a close, we now operate fulfillment centers around the world with hundreds of thousands of fulfillment center and customer services associates, helping us to fulfill products to customers more rapidly and efficiently than ever. We also want to take this moment to thank you for your collaboration in improving aged inventory management.

While the costs to fulfill, transport, and deliver orders increased substantially this year, our continued investment in supply chain innovation allows us to limit the fee changes for 2019.

We will increase our Fulfillment fees, but we will lower the Monthly storage fees and eliminate Long-term storage fees on units in inventory for 181 to 365 days to encourage you to bring new and broader selection to customers.

Planned fee changes in 2019 include:

• Fulfillment fees – Effective February 21, 2019
  • We will align the FBA size tiers to industry standards. The size tiers will be determined by the sum of the length, width, and height of the package up to a specific weight threshold for each tier: small, standard, and oversize. Fulfillment fees will depend on size tier.
  • We will remove the fulfillment fee exemption for items priced at 45,000 JPY or greater.
• Monthly storage fees – Effective February 1, 2019
  • We will introduce separate monthly storage fees for small/standard-size and oversized items.
  • We will reduce the monthly storage fees for small/standard-size items by 35% and oversize items by 45% during the January-September period. The monthly storage fee for oversize items during October-December period will decrease by 15%.
• Long-term storage fees – Effective February 15, 2019
  • We will eliminate long-term storage fees for units that have been in a fulfillment center for 181 to 365 days. No long-term storage fees will be charged for these items on the next inventory cleanup date, February 15, 2019. We will continue to charge long-term storage fees for units that have been in a fulfillment center for more than 365 days.
  • Starting August 15, 2019, we will assess long-term storage fees monthly rather than twice annually. The monthly long-term storage fee will be 17.45 JPY per cubic (10 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm), which is about one-tenth of the current long-term storage fee. We will also introduce a minimum long-term storage fee of 10 JPY per unit per month for items that have been in fulfillment centers for more than 365 days

Fee updates and effective dates for the Small and Light program and Multi-Channel Fulfilment will be announced in early 2019.

See all 2019 storage fee changes, definitions, and examples

All FBA fees are c-tax included. We will update FBA fees to reflect changes in c-tax rates when those rates change later in 2019.