Following the end of last month, Amazon announced the Shanghai FTA to launch Cross-border electricity business, the fiery sea Amoy market recently added new players. Yesterday (September 3), the domestic business operator--1 Shop officially online "No. 1th Sea shopping" project. At this point, store 1th became the Oriental Electronic payment and Cross-border access to achieve docking, and cross-border electrical business comprehensive landing of the comprehensive electricity dealers.
It is understood that shop No. 1th Hai the goods sold through the Shanghai FTA Import mode or overseas direct mail mode of entry. The model is similar to the Amazon buying model that settled in Shanghai's FTA.
Yang Shengyu, head of 1th, said in an interview with the Daily economic news reporter through with the East payment and Cross-border cooperation, "No. 1th Sea Purchase" of the bonded import model can be imported overseas goods in advance to Shanghai from the trade area stock, after the consumer orders, the goods can be directly from Shanghai FTA Warehouse Customs inspection after the shipment.
At present, cross-border electricity market is more and more favored by the electric dealers, some sites have been deep in this market. China E-commerce Research Center monitoring data show that from 2010-2013, the size of overseas purchase transactions from 12 billion yuan to 74 billion yuan. 2014, is expected to break through billions of dollars scale.
Shi Zhiwei, a senior electrical business observer, said in an interview that Amazon, No. 1th Shop in the sea Amoy market, and its transnational background has a huge relationship. It is understood that Wal-Mart holds 54% of the 1th stores. However, there is also the view that for shop 1th, it is not easy to stand out in the competition with Alibaba, an electric trader. According to the consulting data, Alibaba controlled more than half of China's corporate market in the second quarter of 2014, compared with 1th, which accounted for only 1.3% of the overall market share.
In addition, Amazon and store 1th will face a series of challenges. Tian Shi, vice president of business solutions at ease, points out that the future challenges of cross-border electricity dealers will be in the areas of logistics, taxation and prices. Its main bottleneck or because of the need for Cross-border logistics courier, delivery time is very long, the enterprise Logistics goods information system is not perfect, consumers more difficult to track the goods logistics information, distribution will also have lost parts, goods damaged, and returns inconvenient and so on. "Cross-border E-commerce and traditional e-commerce still have a great difference, the traditional electronic commerce, logistics and other services have been developed very well, cross-border electricity dealers in this respect need to be continuously strengthened." ”