White House calls Amazon ‘hostile’ for reportedly planning to list tariff costs
by Blake Montgomery in New York and Callum Jones in S from Technology | The Guardian on (#6WYHN)
US press secretary criticizes e-commerce giant after report says company will inform customers how much tariffs will cost them
The White House accused Amazon of committing a hostile and political act" after a report said the e-commerce company was planning to inform customers how much Donald Trump's tariffs would cost them as they shopped.
The press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, was responding to a report in Punchbowl News, which, citing a person familiar with the matter, reported that Amazon would begin displaying on its site how much the tariffs had increased the prices of individual products, breaking out the figure from the total listed price.
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