The White House on Tuesday closed suddenly Amazon According to the reports, plan to show the cost of the rates of President Donald Trump next to the total price of the products in place.
“This is a hostile and political act of Amazon,” said White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, journalists.
“Why didn’t Amazon do this when the Biden administration rose inflation to the highest level in 40 years?” Leavitt asked.
She added: “This is another reason why Americans should buy American.”
The actions of the online retail giant founded by Jeff Bezos fell more than 2% in trade prior to trade immediately after comments. For noon, the action had recovered its losses.
Less than two hours after the press information session, a Amazon spokesman told CNBC that the company was only considering tariff charges in some products for Amazon Haul, its purchasing section centered on the budget.
“The team that runs our Amazon Haul store of Ultra Low Cost has considered to list import positions on certain products,” said the spokesman. “This was never a consideration for the main site of Amazon and nothing has been implemented in any Amazon property.”
But in a follow -up statement one hour after that, the spokesman clarified that the plan to show tariff surcharges was “never approved” and “will not happen.”
Trump personally called Bezos on Tuesday morning to express his disgust for the initial report that stimulated the heated response of the White House, said a source family of the call to NBC News.
The Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick in a publication X described the Amazon statement as a “good movement.”
The Trump administration aggression report of the PunchBowl News report on the early Tuesday that Amazon will soon show consumers how much of the cost of an article comes from the rates.
The amount added as a result of the rates will be shown right next to each price of the products, a total list price, said a family of the person with the plan in the media.
A journalist at the Tuesday’s press session asked Leavitt and the Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besent, if they agreed that the reported movement was a “crystalline demonstration that is the American consumer, and not China, who will pay for these policies.”
Leavitt chose to answer because, he said, “he has just taken the phone with the president about Amazon’s announcement.”
Leavitt also said that the company’s decision “was not a surprise”, saying that Reuters “recently” wrote that Amazon “has associated with a Chinese propaganda arm.”
Made an impression of a December 2021 Reuters report that Amazon complied with an edict of the Beijing government that eliminates the reviews and currents of the clients of a book of speeches and writings of Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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Amazon is not the first retailer to focus on the new tariffs is changing its prices.
Fast fashion giants based in China, Shein and Temu, have added massive surcharges in recent days. Temu now includes a line in its payment account that shows an “import load” that adds around 145% for each item.
Leavitt’s response could indicate an emerging crack between Trump and Bezos, who has joined other billionaires and technological leaders to accumulate the Republican president since he won the 2024 elections.
Jeff Bezos, founder and executive president of Amazon and owner of the Washington Post, takes the stage during the Annual Dealbook of New York Times in Jazz at the Lincoln Center on December 4, 2024 in New York City.
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After frequently catching Trump’s anger in years, Bezos in December expressed optimism about the second mandate of the Republican, saying that he believes Trump has calmed down and safer.
The same month, Amazon donated $ 1 million to Trump’s opening fund. Later, Bezos attended the inauguration of Trump.
Bezos caused more accusations of trying to court Trump when he forced the Washington Post, which he possesses, to restrict his opinion section to publish only pieces in defense of “personal freedoms and free markets.”
But Amazon’s business has worked at Trump’s Sweeping Tariff plans, especially its 145% duty in China, where up to 70% of Amazon products are obtained, according to Wedbush Securities.
As Amazon merchants have begun to walk prices in a wide range of products in response to tariffs, the company has begun to send an email to sellers to evaluate the impact of Trump’s agenda.
Leavitt, after delivering his statement at Amazon, was asked if Bezos is “still a Trump supporter.”
“Look, I will not talk about the president’s relationships with Jeff Bezos, but I will tell you that it is certainly a hostile and political action of Amazon,” he said.
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– Annie Palmer of CNBC and Garrett Hoeke of NBC News contributed to this report.
