A Shenzhen seller's real experience

Lao Zhang in Shenzhen to do Amazon, annual sales of 80 million, the annual corporate income tax alone will have to pay 25%, almost 2 million.

He has always wanted to move a place, but heard that Hainan Free Trade Port registration company procedures are complex, high threshold, it has been procrastinated. Until last month, a peer told him:

“I paid less than $1 million in taxes on the same profit from a company registered in Hainan.”

Lao Zhang this is a serious study. And the good news is - after May 1, the process of registering a company in Hainan is going to be greatly simplified again!

South African e-commerce giant Takealot, after a short period of time to close the cross-border sellers stationed in the channel, finally in April 2026 officially restarted the investment in China! But this time, the return, bring not a lower threshold, but is called “the most stringent” new rules - individual qualification is completely rejected, only corporate sellers can enter, the platform comprehensively towards compliance, boutique operation era.

For countless small and medium-sized sellers who want to explore the South African market, this is undoubtedly a watershed: some people are forced to withdraw, while others usher in a purer blue sea of dividends.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Besant just made an announcement:

Import duties previously found to be illegally levied are now allowing importers to claim refunds. There are already about

Refund claims of $127 million are in the processing stage and funds are being disbursed.

One quiet weekend, an Amazon email puts Lee's boss completely out of bed--

“Your inventory at FBA Italy has been marked as unsaleable due to: your Italian VAT number is showing invalid in the VIES system.”

Inventory worth 300,000 RMB was just locked up in the warehouse.

This is not an isolated case.

Recently, a large number of customers have asked: Why is the application for a Hong Kong bank account by a BVI company repeatedly rejected? Banks generally require a Hong Kong Business Registration Certificate (BR), is this requirement mandatory? Is it mandatory to apply for BR? Is there any feasible channel to open an account without BR?