## Summary

All products must have shipping information. You can set up general shipping
rules on an account-wide basis in the [Merchant Center](https://merchants.google.com) or
through the Content API for Shopping. You can also set this information or
override the account-wide settings on a per-product basis by adding shipping
information in the uploaded
[product attributes](https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/6324484).

If your Merchant Center account serves products for the United States, you must
set up tax settings before they can serve. Otherwise, attempting to upload
products for the US fails with a reminder to set up tax settings.

The account-wide tax settings are only for products that target the United
States. If you're serving products for other countries, please see [About tax
settings](https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/7052209) to learn how to provide tax information for your target countries.

## Manual steps

1. (US only) [Set up tax settings](https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/160162) in the Merchant Center.
2. Set up shipping settings on an [account-wide](https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/6069284) or [per-product](https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/6324484) basis.

## Automatic steps

Here are the steps to use the Content API for Shopping.

1. (US only) Set up tax settings with the [`accounttax`](https://developers.google.com/shopping-content/reference/rest/v2.1/accounttax) service.
2. Set up account-wide or per-product shipping settings:
   - For account-wide shipping settings, use the [`shippingsettings`](https://developers.google.com/shopping-content/reference/rest/v2.1/shippingsettings) service. For examples, see the [Account-level Tax and Shipping](https://developers.google.com/shopping-content/guides/how-tos/account-level-tax-shipping) guide.
   - For per-product shipping settings, see the [`shipping` attribute](https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/6324484) documentation and the corresponding attributes in the [`products`](https://developers.google.com/shopping-content/reference/rest/v2.1/products) resource.