Category: Amazon

Amazon can remove products for compliance reasons for various reasons. In many cases, Amazon is acting correctly. However, there are situations in which product removals or suspensions for compliance reasons can be successfully appealed.

In this guide, we explain why Amazon suspend products, and how sellers can appeal product removals and suspensions to have their products reinstated.

Note: This guide is focused on product removal appeals in the United States, the European Union, and the United Kingdom. That said, the methods explained can likely be applied to other markets as well.

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Amazon acts on recall orders from the authorities in the countries and markets where it operates. Further, Amazon can also take action when it identifies unsafe products, sometimes resulting in recall orders.

This guide explains how Amazon manages product safety recalls and what you can do to both comply with these and reduce the risk of product recalls on Amazon in the first place.
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Amazon sets chemical and heavy metal restrictions regarding products sold on its platform. This guide is divided into two parts. The first part focuses on Amazon’s Restricted Substances Lists, which primarily concern Amazon’s restrictions for its private label brands.

The second part focuses on substances that Amazon restricts in several categories of products for all sellers, as well as regulations that include substance restrictions. You must also comply with those restrictions if you want to sell your product on Amazon.
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Certain products are subject to restrictions on Amazon. In many cases, Amazon only reflects the regulatory requirements, in the sense that certain products must comply with mandatory standards of substance restrictions. However, some products are subject to standards that are otherwise voluntary, or outright banned – due to Amazon policy.

In this guide, we only focus on products that Amazon either prohibits or restricts for sale on its US marketplace.

Methodology: We used the list of products listed on the Amazon Seller Central page titled “Restricted products” as the reference point. We have expanded on requirements that this page does not cover in detail. Notice that we do not cover all restricted products in this guide.

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