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Amazon has refuted a report which said it was planning to tell consumers how much of a product's price was due to the impact of tariffs that the Trump administration has imposed on imports, particularly those from China. According to Punchbowl News, Amazon was going to display this right next to an item's total price. However, that's not the case, Amazon said in a statement.
"The team that runs our ultra low cost Amazon Haul store has considered listing import charges on certain products," an Amazon spokesperson told The Washington Post (which is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos). "This was never a consideration for the main Amazon site and nothing has been implemented on any Amazon properties."
During Tuesday's White House press briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt responded to a question regarding the Punchbowl report and called the purported plan "a hostile and political act by Amazon." Citing a Reuters report from 2021, Leavitt claimed that Amazon had partnered with "a Chinese propaganda arm."
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The White House said that if Amazon listed tariff prices next to products, it would be considered a "hostile and political act." But the company denies any plans to do so.
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