Amazon, the largest online e-commerce company in the United States, is located in Seattle, Washington. Amazon was founded in 1995. At first, it only operated online book sales, but now it has expanded to a wide range of other products. It has become an online retailer with the largest variety of goods in the world and the second largest Internet enterprise in the world. The company name also includes AlexaInternet, a9, lab 126 and Internet Movie Database (Internet Movie Database).

Amazon and other suppliers provide customers with millions of unique new goods, refurbished goods and second-hand goods, such as books, movies, music and games, digital downloads, electronic products and computers, home gardening supplies, toys, baby products, food, clothing, shoes and jewelry, health and personal care products, sports and outdoor products, toys, automobiles and industrial products.

Haitao refers to overseas/overseas shopping, that is, searching overseas commodity information through the Internet, sending a shopping request through an electronic order, and then filling in a private credit card number, which is delivered by an overseas shopping website through international express delivery, or the goods are collected by a freight forwarding company and then forwarded back to China. It is divided into two categories: domestic cross-border e-commerce purchasing and overseas direct mail direct purchase.

On April 8, 20 16, the new import tax policy for cross-border e-commerce retail and the adjustment of postal tax were officially implemented. This means that Haitao will have to pay more taxes in the future. 2065438+On April 29th, 2009, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange of the People's Republic of China issued the Measures for the Administration of Foreign Exchange Business of Payment Institutions, which further facilitated the settlement in cross-border electronic commerce, facilitated individuals to "surf the sea" and prevented the risk of cross-border capital flow.

Advantages:

First, you can "visit" international stores at home, and the order is not limited by time and place.

Second, by obtaining a large number of international commodity information, you can buy goods that are not available in China;

Third, the commodity prices of overseas shopping websites are much cheaper than those of domestic counters, and overseas shopping websites often have discount promotions;

Fourth, as the RMB exchange rate rises, the purchasing power of RMB increases;

Fifth, the domestic luxury goods market is full of fakes, both real and fake. Without a pair of penetrating eyes, it is really difficult to identify. However, there is basically no need to worry about fakes on overseas shopping websites, and people can buy with confidence.