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The White House was unleashed of what it called a “hostile and political act of Amazon” after a report alleged that the technology giant planned to display price increases caused by Donald Trump's prices on its products.
The story originally reported by Punchbowl News said on Tuesday that the electronic commerce giant would “soon” “the impact of the samples on” the price of each product “that it sold.
“Why didn't Amazon do this when the Biden administration has increased inflation at the highest level in 40 years?” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday.
She added that it was “no surprise” that Amazon would take a step.
However, the group based in Seattle later said that such a decision had been envisaged only for goods sold via its low-cost transport platform.
“The team that manages our Amazon Ultra at low cost transport store has envisaged the idea of listing the import costs on certain products,” said Amazon. “It has never been a consideration for Amazon's main site and nothing was implemented on Amazon's properties.”
“It has never been approved and will not happen,” added the company.
The founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, repaired ties with Trump, which he had once criticized as a “threat to democracy” but which he attended this year.
During his first mandate, Trump frequently unleashed in Bezos, the appellant “Jeff Bozo” and accusing the billionaire of buying the Washington Post to guarantee “political influence for Amazon to benefit from it”.
But the relationship between the two men has since warmed up, Bezos meeting Trump several times in the past year.
Amazon made a donation of $ 1 million to the Trump inauguration fund and paid $ 40 million for a documentary from Melania Trump. About $ 28 million in this sum will go directly to the First Lady, according to several people familiar with the problem.
Amazon's “hostile” act by Leavitt's “hostile” act after Trump said about Bezos in an interview with the Atlantic published this week: “It is 100%. He was great. ”
The Amazon transport platform sells cheap consumer goods directly shipped from Chinese warehouses to take advantage of service exemptions called minimis rules, an escape that the White House will close from May 2.
Asset This month has announced “reciprocal” prices raised on dozens of American trade partners, sending global markets. However, he then started negotiations with many countries to reduce their prices.
