Amazon FBA Fees in Europe: Which Fee Applies Where

✨ Written with AI assistance from Amazon's published EU rate card, and reviewed by Avanta Global EOOD before publication. Learn more

Short answer: in Europe, the referral fee follows the category and is the same in Germany, France, Italy and Spain (15% for Office Products, minimum €0.30). The fulfilment fee follows two things: the store the item is sold in, and whether the stock sits in that country. A small parcel sold into France from a German warehouse through the European Fulfilment Network (EFN) costs €7.05, against €5.07 if the stock sits in France and €3.13 for a local German sale. Storage is charged per cubic metre of the volume Amazon holds for your product. And storing stock in a country will likely bring VAT obligations there.

These are Amazon's published rates, not our measurements. We have not sold in the EU yet; our live account is Amazon Australia. Every EU figure below is quoted from Amazon's own pages, read on 30 September 2026. The one first-hand lesson we add, about volume, comes from Australia.

Referral fees: one schedule across the big four

Amazon's pricing pages for Germany, France, Italy and Spain list the same rate for office supplies: 15%, minimum €0.30 per item. The July 2026 EU rate card shows the same, and lists Packing Materials at 15% as well.

Store	Office Products referral fee	Minimum per item
amazon.de (Bürobedarf)	15%	€0.30
amazon.fr (Produits de bureau)	15%	€0.30
amazon.it (Cancelleria e prodotti per ufficio)	15%	€0.30
amazon.es (Oficina y papelería)	15%	€0.30

The German page applies the percentage to the total the buyer pays: item price plus shipping and gift wrap. The Professional plan is €39 a month excluding VAT.

Fulfilment fees: local, EFN or Pan-European

• Local FBA: stock sits where the item sells; you pay that country's fee.
• EFN: stock sits in one country; orders from other EU stores pay a cross-border fee.
• Pan-European FBA: Amazon spreads stock by demand and you pay local fees where placement is enabled, plus a low-inventory fee below 28 days of supply and, for some oversize items, a surcharge.

One size tier, from the standard table: a small parcel up to 400 g, no larger than 35 × 25 × 12 cm.

Sold in	Local / Pan-EU fee	EFN cross-border fee
Germany (stock in the Central Europe Programme)	€3.13	€7.05
Germany (German stock only, no CEP)	€3.39	€7.31
France	€5.07	€7.05
Italy	€4.54	€7.05
Spain	€3.74	€7.05

That gap, €3.92 per unit for this parcel when the buyer is in Germany (smaller elsewhere), is what the Pan-EU vs EFN decision comes down to.

Three details change the number you actually pay:

1. Parcels are billed on the greater of real weight and dimensional weight. In the EU, dimensional weight is length × width × height in cm divided by 5,000. A 400 g product in a 30 × 20 × 10 cm box weighs 1.2 kg dimensionally, so it bills in the 1.4 kg band.
2. Some categories use a different parcel table. Packing Material and 15 others, including Footwear and Clothing, have their own parcel fees, billed on unit weight only.
3. A 1.5% fuel and logistics surcharge applies to FBA fulfilment fees from 17 April 2026. Amazon says its Revenue Calculator includes it; the rate card does not say whether its tables do, so we quote them as printed.

Storage: charged on volume, and the volume is Amazon's

Amazon charges EU monthly storage on your daily average volume, in cubic metres. For standard-size, non-dangerous goods outside clothing and footwear, the rate in DE/FR/IT/ES/NL/PL/BE/IE is €27.54 per m³ per month from January to September and €52.20 from October to December. Surcharges apply above 22 weeks of stock cover and after 241 days in storage.

The rate card says units are measured "properly packaged and ready for shipping". In practice the volume on your bill is whatever Amazon has recorded, and that record can be wrong.

What we got wrong: a box we no longer use

On Amazon Australia, the package volume Amazon holds for our bubble-mailer bundle is 10.305 litres (30.9 × 23.0 × 14.5 cm): our previous supplier's pack. The new supplier's stock arrived on 10 August 2026, and its pack, tape-measured, is 24 × 13 × 22 cm, or 6.86 litres. Nobody updated the record. We noticed on 14 September and corrected our declared dimensions on 15 September. We also opened a re-measure and refund case with Amazon, which was still under review at our last check on 24 September.

So storage has been billed on about 1.5 times the real volume. Amazon's two internal records agreed with each other, because both came from the same old number; only the supplier's carton showed the error.

For scale, here is what the EU rate above would charge for each volume (our own arithmetic on the published rate, not an EU bill):

Volume per unit	Jan–Sep (€27.54/m³)	Oct–Dec (€52.20/m³)
10.305 L (the recorded box)	€0.28 per unit per month	€0.54 per unit per month
6.86 L (the real box)	€0.19 per unit per month	€0.36 per unit per month

Small per unit, but it applies to every unit, every month, and nearly doubles in Q4.

VAT: stock creates obligations

Amazon's rate card says storing goods in any EU country will likely bring VAT obligations there, and that the Central Europe Programme (German stock stored in Poland and the Czech Republic) triggers them in those countries. That matters most for Pan-EU, where Amazon moves your stock.

Our own case: we have no German stock yet, and we filed for German VAT registration with the tax office on 9 September 2026, before shipping. We are not accountants; get professional advice for your setup.

How to check your own EU fees

1. Download the current EU rate card from any Amazon EU pricing page and note its "effective as of" date.
2. Measure one packed unit yourself. Compare it with the package dimensions Seller Central shows for that product.
3. Work out the dimensional weight (L × W × H ÷ 5,000) and find your size tier and weight band.
4. For each store you plan to sell in, write down the local fee and the EFN fee side by side.
5. Once you sell, check the fee on each order in the settlement report and set ad targets on real contribution (ACoS vs profit).

Our FBA fee calculator gives an estimate before you ship; the settlement profit reader shows what you were actually charged.

FAQ

Is the referral fee different in each EU country? Not for most categories in the big four. Germany, France, Italy and Spain list the same 15% for Office Products. Poland lists 10% on the rate card.

Is EFN always more expensive than Pan-EU? Per unit, for the parcel we checked, yes: €7.05 against €3.13–5.07 locally. Pan-EU replaces that fee gap with VAT obligations in each country that holds stock, so the answer depends on volume.

Why does the fee on my order not match the rate card? Usually the recorded dimensions, dimensional weight, the 1.5% surcharge or a category-specific parcel table. Check the recorded dimensions first; in our case that was the problem.

About this article

EU figures are Amazon's published rates: the "Rate Card — Europe Fees, effective as of 1st July 2026" (PDF) and the pricing pages sell.amazon.de/preisgestaltung, sell.amazon.fr/tarifs, sell.amazon.it/prezzi and sell.amazon.es/precios, all read on 30 September 2026. The package-volume figures are Avanta Global EOOD's own Amazon.com.au records and supplier measurements from August–September 2026. Fees change: check the current rate card before you act on any number here. We are not accountants or tax advisers.