Amazon raised its fuel and logistics-related surcharge on European FBA fulfilment fees from 1.5% to 2% on 2 November 2026. It applies in all ten stores that carried the original surcharge: the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Ireland and Belgium. If you use FBA in any of them, every unit you ship now costs a little more to fulfil, and your margin sheets and repricer floors were probably built on the old rate.

What changed

  • The rate. 1.5% becomes 2%, calculated on fulfilment fees. Source: Amazon’s Europe FBA rate card, effective 2 November 2026. Its note reads that from 2 November the surcharge “will increase from 1.5% to 2%”.
  • The stores. UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, Sweden, Netherlands, Ireland and Belgium, per the same rate card. That is the same list as the original surcharge.
  • The history. The 1.5% surcharge started on 17 April 2026, per Amazon’s UK pricing page and Amazon’s Seller Central forum announcement. Amazon called it temporary when it introduced it, and has now raised it instead of removing it.
  • Peak season. The festive peak fulfilment fee runs from 15 October 2026 to 14 January 2027, per the rate card. The 2% note is printed on the rate card’s peak-fee pages as well as the standard ones, and the rate card does not exclude peak fees from it.
  • After peak. The rate card says fulfilment fees revert on 15 January 2027 to non-peak rates that are unchanged from 2026. The surcharge is a separate line, and the rate card gives it no end date.

What it means for a private-label seller

The increase is small per unit, and it lands on every unit. Because it’s a percentage of the fulfilment fee, not of your sale price, the extra cost scales with size and weight. A worked example, not an Amazon figure: on a £3.00 fulfilment fee, 1.5% was 4.5p and 2% is 6p. Multiply by your Q4 unit volume before deciding it doesn’t matter.

Bulky, low-price products feel it most. A large fulfilment fee on a cheap item means the surcharge takes a bigger share of what’s left after referral and fulfilment. If you sell oversize or heavy items at a low price point, this is the part of your catalogue to recheck.

It is now part of your cost base, whatever it’s called. Amazon introduced the surcharge as temporary in April. Seven months later it went up, not away. Planning for it to disappear in 2027 is a bet, not a forecast. Price as if it stays, and treat any removal as upside.

Your tools may be using the old number. When the 1.5% version launched, Amazon said the Revenue Calculator, Profit Analytics and the Fee and Economics Preview reports had been updated to reflect it. We couldn’t confirm from outside Seller Central that those have been updated for 2%. When we checked on 5 November, the text on Amazon’s UK pricing page still described only the April 1.5% note, although the rate card it links to is the new one. Any third-party profit tool or spreadsheet with a hard-coded 1.5% is now understating your fees.

What this doesn’t tell you

The rate card doesn’t give a per-unit estimate for the 2% rate, or say how long it will last. It also covers FBA only. Amazon applied the original surcharge to Multi-Channel Fulfilment in five of these stores from 2 May 2026. We couldn’t find a public Amazon page saying whether, or when, MCF moves to 2%. If you use MCF in Europe, check Seller Central news before you assume either way.

What to do about it

  1. Change 1.5% to 2% wherever you model FBA fees: margin sheets, landed-cost models and any profit tool where you entered the surcharge yourself. It takes five minutes.
  2. Check one real order shipped after 2 November. Open the transaction in Payments and confirm the surcharge line matches 2% of the fulfilment fee. That tells you what you’re actually being charged, not what the rate card says.
  3. Re-sort your European catalogue by fulfilment fee as a share of price. The ASINs at the top are where this change and the peak fee combined cut deepest. The trade-off with raising price there is conversion during the weeks when traffic is highest, so look first at items whose margin is already thin enough to make you lose money at your current ad spend.
  4. Raise repricer floors that were set just above break-even on those ASINs, or your repricer can now sell below cost without telling you.
  5. If you sell only on Amazon.com, ignore this. This change covers the ten European stores listed above.

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