Selling on Amazon.com as UK Ltd

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Hi - I am an UK based Ltd company currently selling physical goods online within UK territory.

With amazon now offering various business models that allow anyone to upload a T-shirt design or a PDF book to amazon platform and sell it as print on demand on Amazon.com (so in the US market, and therefore revenue in dollars) I would like to try selling these to US market and my question is if I can do this as UK based Ltd? Or would I need to declare any taxes in US as well? It confuses me as I will only upload designs and won’t hold any physical stock. If anyone buys, it gets printed on demand in US and shipped to them.

Thank you in advance to whoever is able to answer this and I apologise if the business language is not 100% correct as I am just starting out. But hopefully it is clear enough to be answered.

Emmia

Have you looked at redbubble for this too?  I've used this to get more niche things printed on tshirts etc. 

CKhalvashi

If it's a drop-ship type operation, you may or may not need a US LLC at some point. If you don't it may make more sense regulation-wise to operate through one. You can arrange your contracts so it's a licensing agreement and a third party is the legal merchant, but you're then relying on a party that isn't Amazon to get paid.

FWIW, I've assisted a Ukrainian artist to get designs etc into an operation exactly like this. In Europe, VAT is the main issue, however through my accountant we found directly a contractual way with the printer to ensure that post-UK/EU VAT the licensing payments go directly into a Ukrainian company controlled by her with any funds from that (for this particular project) going directly to the military fund.

I don't have any direct personal experience with them, but I also would look at a company like Redbubble.