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Trump will certainly consider this provocation, so perhaps the news here is that Amazon considered this worth it, even given the inevitable retaliation.
Are they going to show the cost of tariffs for other countries as well? Or just partisan hackiness?
100%+ fees added overnight are interesting, no one is writing features to show 0% that hasn't budged in decades.
This may backfire. Will they also show how much their profits are costing consumers?
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.
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?
Are they going to show the cost of tariffs for other countries as well? Or just partisan hackiness?
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Then even without that, your 6 biggest companies are Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta. Then the seventh is private equity. Then it's back to Alphabet again, and Broadcom.
The trade deficit calculation excludes services, including but not limited to: software
So even with countries where you supposedly have trade deficits you're not even sure that you really do.
TL;DR It won't help you select jack shit
Trump will certainly consider this provocation, so perhaps the news here is that Amazon considered this worth it, even given the inevitable retaliation.
Isn’t Trump the one doing the tariffs? Isn’t the point to get you to buy products without tariffs? I’d think this plays directly into what Trump wants.
They actually already do this in Amazon stores in other countries for good that are shipped from overseas. They display the cost of customs processing and it's either included or in addition to the base cost. Then they tack on shipping if applicable. This of course is only for products that do not require further customs processing due to the cost of items going over allowed limits, number of units that are considered commercial purchases, whether the product is in a list of products with different requirements etc.
I really do doubt Amazon will do something much different in the US. Can someone with access to the article comment on this?