A hot potato: Amazon has distanced from a plan to show that Trump Tariff will increase the cost of goods on its Amazon Hall site. The White House called the potential step “hostile and political act”, and the President called himself Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to discuss the matter.
Amazon said it was considering the idea of listing import duty for some products sold on its hall spinoff site, which sells items for less than $ 20, showing customers properly shown how much they will pay due to tariffs. Most of the goods on Amazon Dhona come from China.
An Amazon source said that the end of the de minimis exemption that allows American consumers to obtain valuable foreign packages under $ 800 duty-free, gave rise to the plan.
Trump has implemented 145% tariff on imports from China and 10% minimum tax on all other countries, which has discounts for smartphones, computers, semiconductors and other electronics.
Shin and Temu, who ship items directly from China, have already announced a price hike, Temu has introduced a new import duty that is displayed in the checkout.
Not surprisingly, the White House was pleased with the scheme. Press Secretary Karolin Lewitt “an enmity and political act,” said, “Why did Amazon not do so when the Biden administration increased inflation to the highest level in 40 years?”
Levit also cited a 2021 report by Reuters, claiming that Amazon had partnered with a “Chinese promotion hand”, which censored the user reviews on his Chinese website. He said that the proposed step was “another reason was that Americans should buy Americans.”
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CNBC Reports The Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik reiterated the statement, claiming that if a company goes out of its way to make it, Tariff has changed the prices, this is a hostile task.
“It’s nonsense,” he said in a CNBC interview on Tuesday. He said, “A 10% tariff is not going to change almost any price,” he said. “The only value change will be a product that we do not make here, like a common.”
A senior official called Trump to inform about the story. “Of course he was angry,” one of the authorities told CNN. “Why should a multibillion-dollar company pass the cost to consumers?”
Trump personally joined, told Bezos about the situation. “Jeff Bezos was very good. He was very good,” Trump told reporters. “He solved the problem very quickly. Good man.”
Amazon has insisted that listing the import duty on the hall was never out or approved, and it is not going to happen.
Trump and Bezos had a stressful relationship in the past. It was reported that Trump was the President as the President during his first term “passionate with Amazon”, it is called “No-tax monopoly”. He also repeatedly destroyed the Washington Post, who owns Bezos, claiming that it was a tax shelter for Amazon who had published fake news.
But the relationship seems to be melted since then. Amazon donated $ 1 million to Trump’s inaugural fund, and Trump recently said about Bezos, “He is 100 percent. He has been great.”
