I wonder what could possibly go wrong…? 
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So you either:
1: Ship your Chinese product from China to the US and back to China and back to the US…
or
2: don’t QA your product and ship your Chinese product from China to China to the US.
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Or you could hire a 3rd party QA firm in China to spot-check the inventory before sending it along to the Amazon warehouse in China.
Let’s face it, anything made in China is soon going to be sold directly by “the factory” on Amazon soon, as they are working that crowd hard with incentives, the biggest one being a lack of any “rules enforcement”. They clearly want to eliminate the middlemen that buy from China and sell to Amazon. This new service is a clear signal that they want the landfill-ready plastic crap “factory fresh”.
So the only middlemen left will be the “trading companies” that masquerade as “manufacturers” to everyone who does not knock on their door and demand to see their factory, as the actual factories don’t need the nonsense of dealing with something like Amazon, and are happy with the profits they make from the trading companies.
The only problems are the tariffs imposed by the Cheddar Ceaușescu, and the petrochemical supply issues from the imperial ambitions of Pete Keg’s Breath and the Fanta Menace, which will seriously hamper the production of anything made of plastic.
[Don’t flame me over my choice of names - I am trying to just get a laugh, not start any political exchange!]
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The other thing holding them back is the leverage IP rights holders are going to start using against Amazon for market share. Big brands are not going to trade their market share with Amazon. I don’t think you will find Amazon replacing Nike, Apple, Samsung, for anything more than cheap junk or generic items like printer paper. China’s demographic bomb is going to go off in the next decade or so, meaning factory growth will slow or become less competitive IMO.
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