Amazon Seller Central for a Foreign-Owned US LLC

You will see it everywhere. Amazon accepts sellers from 188 countries.

That figure dates from May 2021. It is republished continuously, usually with no date attached, by sites summarizing each other. Five years is a long time in marketplace policy, and a number with no date is not a fact about today.

We are not going to reprint it as current, and we would treat any guide that does as unreliable on the rest of its claims too.

Amazon's seller eligibility and country-of-registration policy pages are login-gated. A seller account is required to read them, and content behind a login is not something we can cite for you to check yourself.

That last point matters more than the inconvenience. A source you cannot open is a source you cannot verify, so even if we read it we would be asking you to take our word for it.

Amazon is a US company subject to US sanctions law, so sanctioned jurisdictions are predictable in substance for the same reason they are on Upwork's published list.

Beyond that, the things a seller actually needs to know are the things we cannot source: which countries of residence Amazon accepts for a Professional selling account, what identity documents it takes from a non-US representative, whether the LLC or the individual is assessed, and how the payout bank country interacts with the marketplace.

Probably nothing, if Amazon verifies the individual as well as the entity. This section is reasoning from adjacent platforms rather than sourced fact, and it is labeled that way throughout.

Across the eleven providers we could verify, the pattern is consistent. Where a platform gates on the entity, a US LLC helps. Where it gates on the individual's residence, it does not. Amazon's verification is known to assess both the business and the beneficial owner, which suggests it is not a pure entity gate.

That is an inference from how comparable platforms behave. It is not an Amazon statement and you should not plan around it as though it were.

A retrievable Amazon policy page, or first-hand dated reports.

If you have registered a Professional seller account for a US LLC while living outside the US, we want to know the country, the month, what documents were asked for, and whether the payout bank had to be American. If you were refused, the same.

Reports like that are the only route we have to turning this page into something better than an account of its own limits.

Can a non-US resident sell on Amazon with a US LLC? We cannot tell you from published sources. Amazon's seller eligibility pages are login-gated and we could not retrieve a current country list. Anyone giving you a confident number is probably repeating a 2021 figure.

Is it 188 countries? That number dates from May 2021 and is republished without its date. We do not know what the current figure is and neither, on the published evidence, does anyone citing it.

Why can't you just read the policy? It is behind a seller login. Even reading it would leave you unable to check us, which is not how the rest of this index works.

What should I do instead? Treat Amazon as unverified in your planning. If your business depends on it, the answer worth having is your own: start a registration and see what it asks for, and tell us what happened.

Everything above is about eligibility. These two are about readiness, and they are the ones with lead times.

A certificate of good standing, and it has a shelf life.

Amazon requires the business documents used for seller identity verification to have been issued within the past 180 days.[1]Amazon Seller Central, Global seller identity, address, and business verification

Six months is shorter than most people assume a document stays current, and the clock runs from issue rather than from when you upload it. What each state calls the document, and what it costs, is on what is a certificate of good standing.

A US bank account in the entity's name. Amazon accepts a Payoneer statement as proof of address, which is unusually accommodating, but disbursement still needs an account. Which providers will open one for a founder in your country is on the Compatibility Index, and the application itself is on opening a US business bank account from abroad.

And if you are selling into US states from inventory Amazon holds there, read sales tax nexus before your first quarter, not after.