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Zhou Lei (a pseudonym) has been working at a local Mercado Libre store in Brazil for two months, and his monthly sales have just reached 80,000 reais.

Everything seemed to be going smoothly. Until one Tuesday, when he logged into his seller dashboard and saw a red alert:

“Your account has been temporarily suspended. Reason: Registration discrepancy—CNPJ.”

Translation: Your account has been temporarily suspended due to discrepancies in your CNPJ registration information.

Zhou Lei’s first reaction was—“My CNPJ tax ID was registered for me by the service provider; how could it possibly be flagged as abnormal?”

He contacted the service provider, who told him that the CNPJ information was in order and asked him to wait for the platform’s review. A week has passed, and the account remains frozen, while Meike Duo customer service keeps repeating the same boilerplate response: “Please submit a request for CNPJ re-verification through the Seller Support Center.”

Two months of hard work went down the drain overnight.

Zhang Min (a pseudonym) runs a Meiketuo store on the Mexico platform, but she can't make sense of the data.

Within the same category of 3C accessories, her listing—with a 4.7-star rating, professionally edited main images, a title that fully covers all relevant keywords, and a price that’s 81 TP3T lower than competitors’—should, in theory, have a decent conversion rate.

However, backend data shows that while her listing’s click-through rate is normal, the add-to-cart rate is somewhat weak, and the conversion rate is only 55% of that of a competing product (a local store).

She couldn't figure it out no matter how hard she tried, until she compared all the variables in the two listings item by item and discovered that the only difference that couldn't be bridged through operational efforts was—delivery time.

Zhang Min's Cross-Border Store: Shipping takes 15 to 25 days.

Local Competitors: Shipments from fulfillment centers, 1 to 3 days.

Chen Yang (a pseudonym) has been running a local store on Mercado Libre in Brazil for four months, with monthly sales consistently hovering around 250,000 reais.

Last week, his Brazilian accountant sent him the first-quarter tax return. It was three pages long, written in Portuguese, with densely packed forms and two rows of numbers showing two different results:

Simples Nacional (Simplified Tax System): Tax liability of 11,000 reais

Presumed Profit System (Lucro Presumido): Tax liability of 18,500 reais

For the same sales figure, the two calculation methods differed by 401 TP3T. Chen Yang’s first thought was—have I been overpaying my taxes all along?

The more he looked through the information online, the more confused he became. Some people said the simplified tax system was always the most cost-effective, others said that for high-gross-margin categories, the profit projection method should be chosen, and still others said they had tried both and eventually switched to a third approach.