Amazon builds Shenzhen hub

Amazon has opened a new warehousing hub in Shenzhen to move Chinese sellers’ goods into its United States network faster and more cheaply. (sellercentral.amazon.com) The facility went live for sellers on April 9, 2026, under Amazon’s Global Warehousing & Distribution program. Amazon said sellers can store bulk inventory in Shenzhen and replenish its U.S. fulfillment centers when needed. (sellercentral.amazon.com) Amazon said the Shenzhen setup can cut storage costs by as much as 45% versus keeping that inventory in U.S. Amazon Warehousing and Distribution sites. It also said shipments can reach U.S. fulfillment centers up to seven days faster when sellers pair the hub with Amazon Global Logistics. (sellercentral.amazon.com) The new model pulls several steps into one place: local storage, customs clearance, cross-border shipping, and inventory transfers. Sellers who once stitched those services together themselves can now hand more of that work to Amazon. (macaonews.org) Amazon first announced the Shenzhen site at its Global Selling Cross-Border Summit in Hangzhou on December 5, 2025. The company chose Shenzhen because it sits inside China’s biggest cluster of export-focused factories and Amazon merchants. (newsflare.com) (eyeshenzhen.com) That seller base is large. Shenzhen hosts more than 80,000 cross-border e-commerce sellers, more than half of China’s total, according to local and state-backed reports, and it has ranked first nationally in cross-border trade for four straight years. (people.cn) (macaonews.org) Amazon is making the pitch as tariff costs rise and Chinese merchants face harder competition in the U.S. from Shein, Temu, and TikTok Shop. South China Morning Post reported that Amazon has presented the hub as a way to trim delays and ease some of the burden from tariffs. (scmp.com) (silicon.co.uk) U.S. sellers that source from China have already warned that new tariffs threaten margins and could force price increases. CNBC reported on April 10, 2025, that Amazon merchants expected the duties to raise consumer prices and hit small businesses especially hard. (cnbc.com) Amazon is not moving back into China’s domestic marketplace business it shut down in 2019. Its new bet is narrower: keep Chinese factories and exporters tied closely to Amazon’s logistics system as they sell abroad. (techinasia.com) The company has already signaled that Shenzhen is the first stop, not the last. Reports on the launch said Amazon plans similar services for manufacturers in the Yangtze River Delta and wants the distribution model to reach Europe and Japan too. (macaonews.org)