Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers
Source: Punchbowl News
Amazon doesnt want to shoulder the blame for the cost of President Donald Trumps trade war.
So the e-commerce giant will soon show how much Trumps tariffs are adding to the price of each product, according to a person familiar with the plan.
The shopping site will display how much of an items cost is derived from tariffs right next to the products total listed price.
Read more: https://punchbowl.news/article/tech/amazon-display-tariff-costs/#start-of-content

Midnight Writer
(23,811 posts)moniss
(7,180 posts)Harker
(16,156 posts)NewEnglandAutumn
(220 posts)Bezos is scum ( like most of the 1%)
liberalgunwilltravel
(789 posts)Is finding out that the only thing you get from kissing Trump's ass is a brown nose.
Sailingdiver
(230 posts)Doodley
(10,827 posts)global1
(26,105 posts)the pre-tariff price of the product/item.
All stores should adapt this type of price labeling.
The other benefit of such price-labeling is that it could help weed out those greedy merchants that take advantage of the tariffs and price up products that are not subject to a tariff. You know - those products that the price goes up on a product that is just the greed of the merchant using the tariff excuse for them raising the price - just so they can push their profits.
A lot of that was going on during the 'pandemic'. Pushing prices higher - just so they could use the 'pandemic' as an excuse.
They take advantage of any old excuse to raise prices and make more money.
CaptainTruth
(7,577 posts)I dont think it was ever repealed.
There are many more & it would be really nice if consumers knew how much tariffs were costing them, most people have no idea & our media doesn't report it.
MichMan
(15,041 posts)C_U_L8R
(47,221 posts)Only a crook like Trump would find that threatening.
Torchlight
(4,572 posts)And pointed. It will be a difficult measure to argue against. I'm morbidly curious as to the format and direction of the criticisms this will get.
Clouds Passing
(4,540 posts)twodogsbarking
(13,496 posts)Dennis Donovan
(30,650 posts)@JStein_WaPo
17m
New Amazon Spox now saying this was never under consideration for the main Amazon website. Says Amazon Haul has considered listing import price duties on certain products
Jeff Stein
@JStein_WaPo
1h
Woah WH spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt condemns Amazon decision to label tariff price hikes as a "hostile and political action"
Jeff Stein
@JStein_WaPo
Amazon statement: The team that runs our ultra low cost Amazon Haul store has considered listing import charges on certain products. This was never a consideration for the main Amazon site and nothing has been implemented on any Amazon properties.
10:14 AM · Apr 29, 2025
Link to tweet
Bayard
(24,846 posts)Weenies.
IronLionZion
(48,651 posts)they need to find out somehow that Trump is raising their taxes.
FredGarvin
(627 posts)Jan Brady reporter?
SCantiGOP
(14,442 posts)Why does the listing of tariff cost matter, when our citizens dont pay it since it is off by the other country (and why are these police officers handcuffing me and dragging me out of the room?)
Fil1957
(66 posts)YodaMom2
(84 posts)Bezos pulled a Trumpesque move a la it was an underlings fault/it was discussed but we never really planned to do it. Amazing how all these alpha males turn out to be such wusses.
NewEnglandAutumn
(220 posts)Beck23
(375 posts)Which has billions of dollars in comtracts with the government. In 2019 Trump bombed the AWS contracts because he didn't like something the WaPo wrote.
flashman13
(1,169 posts)FakeNoose
(37,242 posts)If Amazon is honest about breaking out the tariff costs, then GOOD for them.
But I'm afraid that some retailers are going to jack-up prices whether or not the tariffs actually impact the merchandise. If everything that originates in China goes up 20% retail (for example) how many retailers will increase pricing across the board for everything? I'm afraid this is happening already because we consumers have no way of knowing.
republianmushroom
(19,690 posts)Miguelito Loveless
(4,937 posts)and he couldn't do it fast enough.
Littlered
(236 posts)A reliable news organization?
marble falls
(65,029 posts)The Mouth
(3,346 posts)I don't care if people can't buy cheap Chinese crap. Walmart and other such places can go out of business and I won't be sad in the slightest.
Buy American.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(122,338 posts)Amazon is reportedly backing off its plan to display tariff costs for consumers on its website next to its products, something the White House described as a hostile act.
This is a hostile and political act by Amazon, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters this week. Why didnt Amazon do this when the Biden administration hiked inflation to the highest level in 40 years?
Amazons plan, according to a report from Punchbowl News, would have displayed the amount of money added as a result of the tariffs displayed right next to each products total listed price. But a spokesperson for the company claimed Amazon never considered this strategy.
The team that runs our ultra-low-cost Amazon Haul store has considered the idea of listing import charges on certain products, the spokesperson told ABC. Teams discuss ideas all the time. This was never a consideration for the main Amazon site and nothing has been implemented on any Amazon properties.
https://mynorthwest.com/mynorthwest-politics/amazon-tariff/4081411