Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers
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Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers
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Re: Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers
#2This may backfire. Will they also show how much their profits are costing consumers?
Re: Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers
#3This may backfire. Will they also show how much their profits are costing consumers?
My guess: No, they won't
Re: Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers
#4Presumably 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?
Re: Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers
#5This makes sense and it kind of anchors people on a lower price point. Not sure how many people like me are going to postpone purchases.
Re: Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers
#6Cool, 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 over the new import duties. Most stores have now rolled out those on check-out.
Re: Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers
#7Wouldn't this reveal their margins? If you see the tariff amount, you can then find the appropriate line in the policy and then calculate how much they paid for it at import.
Re: Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers
#8Great! They should do that in every single country, for all tariffs.
Re: Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers
#9Presumably 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.
Re: Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers
#10Maybe Jeff shouldn't have been so eager to jump on the Trump train.