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> Tariffs on sellers' goods are putting Amazon in an awkward position for Prime Day, said Arun Sundaram, an analyst at CFRA Research.
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/some-amazon...
Presumably they can determine this for items directly imported, but for all other cases (such as a made-in-the-USA product that is built using made-in-China tools, or from made-in-China components), surely the cost impact on the final product could be extremely complex to work out, if they even have access to that level of supply chain detail?
A lazy way to do this is to take the current price as the non tariff price and assume any increase in price is based on tariffs.
Bezos slighting Trump? Interesting
Meh, he’s already paid millions in bribes (that we now about). That’ll buy him a pass for a little while.
Cool, it is rare to see that kind of transparency. I live in a country with both tariffs / import taxes on a bunch of items, and a general VAT. VAT (25%) is the only thing you ever see as a consumer, and other taxes (like for exmaple 10.7% on clothes imported to my country) are hidden away by the stores. I've been checking out some of the aliexpress / temu / etc. subreddits, and US consumers are losing their marbles…
Who says it will be right? There are no real consumer protections any more. Why not just lie about it?
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A lazy way to do this is to take the current price as the non tariff price and assume any increase in price is based on tariffs.
That would also be quite a misleading way to do it.
This may backfire. Will they also show how much their profits are costing consumers?
How does that work?
I think you mean that Trump people will get mad at them for highlighted his screwup. I'm sure that's true -- they've decided to back Trump no matter what, which leads them to numerous irrational positions -- but it's not like Amazon or anyone else can do anything about it. Trump and his supporters just thrash about destructively and we all pay the price.
Presumably they can determine this for items directly imported, but for all other cases (such as a made-in-the-USA product that is built using made-in-China tools, or from made-in-China components), surely the cost impact on the final product could be extremely complex to work out, if they even have access to that level of supply chain detail?
A lazy way to do this is to take the current price as the non tariff price and assume any increase in price is based on tariffs.
priceIncrease := (newPrice - oldPrice) / oldPrice var trump_tariff bool
if priceIncrease > 1.0 { trump_tariff = true }
This may backfire. Will they also show how much their profits are costing consumers?