#409 - How Tariff Changes Will Shake Up E-Commerce in 2025 – What’s the new strategy?

Selling on Amazon with Andy Isom

Andy Isom

Amazon, Business, Amazonfba, Selling, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Personalbusiness, Productbusiness, Ecommerce, Onlinebusiness

4.9 • 816 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The biggest shake-up to e-commerce in years is happening right now, and if you’re selling on Amazon, you have to adapt… or risk getting crushed by rising costs and supply chain chaos. Let’s talk about what these new tariffs and policies mean for you—and how you can still win in 2025!

New tariffs on Canada and Mexico, the end of the de minimis threshold, and rising costs—what does this mean for Amazon sellers? Today, I’ll break down the biggest changes and, more importantly, what you need to do to protect your margins and scale smart in 2025.

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0:00.0	The biggest shakeup to e-commerce in years is happening right now.
0:06.0	And if you're selling on Amazon, you have to adapt or risk getting crushed by rising costs and the supply chain chaos.
0:15.0	If 2015 Amazon was Charmander, 2020 Amazon was Charmielion, the Pokemon. 2025.
0:21.9	The next five years is about to be Charzard level of e-commerce.
0:33.0	President Donald Trump has already gotten out his tariff taser and he is zapping everyone
0:39.7	that dares to stand in his path.
0:43.4	And no, that was not actually a scripted sentence right there.
0:47.9	Guys, I'm so excited to be back on the podcast.
0:50.7	In the month of January, I released a remake of my eight episode mini series.
0:55.6	The point of that was to update my original eight episodes.
0:59.6	I know a lot of you guys who listen to the podcast, find it and then start from episode
1:03.9	one back in February of 2020.
1:05.9	You listen to those first eight episodes.
1:07.7	And then you'll send me a message and say, Andy, are these episodes still relevant?
1:11.5	Can I still start an Amazon business? And I usually respond with something like, hey, I'd
1:16.4	recommend listening from the most recent episodes and then working your way backwards to get the
1:21.0	most fresh relevant content. But I decided a few months back that I wanted to do like a remake.
1:26.0	Now, I will admit that remake, and if those
1:29.5	of you that have already listened to it, that remake was highly planned, highly scripted.
1:35.5	I wanted it to be a lot more to the point because during that process of planning out that
1:40.3	eight episode remake, I went back, I listened to my original eight episodes. And there was a lot of
1:44.3	good content advice, but there was just a lot of fluff, which ironically I'm getting back
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