Amazon Delaying Introduction of New Chargeback Sub Type

Earlier this year, Amazon announced the introduction of a new ASN chargeback sub-type, Invalid Expiration Dates, which was supposed to go into effect on March 27th, 2020. Amazon has since delayed the introduction of this chargeback until April 30th, 2020. While this chargeback will not be charged during this time, you can still see if it would have applied to your products

See Amazon's full notice:

In January, we announced a new Invalid Expiration Date sub-type chargeback on most consumables products that require expiration dates (which may include products with Best Before, Use By Dates, Freshness dates, etc.)

This has been in soft-launch since 27 January, 2020, meaning that the sub-type has been visible via the Operational Performance dashboard but without charges applied.

We are now pushing back the hard-launch date for the introduction of a fee until 30 April, 2020 (previously planned for 27 March, 2020). The chargeback will remain in soft launch until that time.

The Invalid Expiration Date chargeback is a new sub-type within the existing ASN (Advanced Shipment Notification) Accuracy chargeback, and is applicable to products that require expiration dates in these categories: Luxury Beauty, Beauty, Pantry, Grocery, Baby, Health and Personal Care, Personal Care Appliances and Private Brands (excluding Amazon Fresh/Prime Now/Amazon Go).

The chargeback is triggered if the expiration dates listed on the ASN at time of receive are 1) in the past, 2) too close to the receive date or 3) too far in the future.

The chargeback use cases and the fee structure are detailed in the Help topic under Support > Help > Vendor Operational Performance > Chargebacks - Problems With ASN > About ASN Accuracy.