After considering displaying the increase in its products, Amazon retracts – Liberation
An Express Flopping Faced with Trump’s pressure. This Tuesday, April 29, the spokesperson for the White House, Karoline Leavittpresented itself upset against journalists. In question, an article in the information site Punchbowl News Who explained that Amazon would consider indicating, alongside the sale price of his articles, the share of customs duties imposed by Donald Trump on the major trade partners of the United States.
For Karoline Leavitt, this measure would be no more or less than « Hostile and political act ». « It’s not a surprise »continued Trump’s spokesperson, « Because Amazon has signed a partnership with a Chinese propaganda entity ».
The spokesperson brandished a copy of a Reuters agency articledated December 2021, in which we learn that Amazon established a partnership with the Chinese authorities, which led in particular to the creation of an internet portal specifically dedicated to the books of members of the Chinese government, first of all President Xi Jinping. Before indicating that she had just met the subject of Amazon on the phone with the American president.
In the wake of his press conference, Amazon published a press release in which he explains that he will not finally display the weight of customs duties on his online commercial platform. The group says that the team in charge of low -cost products, « Amazon Haul », had « Considered the idea of publishing import costs for certain products »but that the proposal had « Never been approved » and that she would not be « Not implemented ».
According to several American media, however, many third -party companies that sell their products on Amazon have noted their prices to amortize the expected effect of customs duties. Companies and economists expect a particularly marked impact for imports of finished products or components from China, on which Donald Trump imposed customs duties of 145 %.
