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Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers

449 点作者 donohoe16 天前

56 条评论

StanAngeloff16 天前
&quot;Amazon says it never considered listing import charges on main site - report&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;live&#x2F;cpvrrre4zlkt?post=asset%3A0240f060-8479-433e-8f47-82dfe37bbdfe#post" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;live&#x2F;cpvrrre4zlkt?post=asset%3A0240...</a>
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profmonocle16 天前
I&#x27;m fine with this as long as they include the tariff in the listed price.<p>I&#x27;m worried businesses are going to use tariffs as an excuse to have a fake list price, then hit you with massive hidden fees at the point of sale. Some sectors have been doing this for years - &quot;service fees&quot; at restaurants, &quot;regulatory response fees&quot; in the telecom industry, all sorts of nonsense in event ticketing.<p>Physical goods have mostly been spared this type of fake pricing - aside from sales tax not being included, but that&#x27;s been universally true in the US forever so everyone is used to it.<p>Tariffs could be the end of that if businesses see sales plummet. Especially because these scams actually <i>work</i> - the reason restaurants give for not just increasing their menu prices is because higher listed prices drive people away.
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Eextra95316 天前
I&#x27;m not sure why so many comments think this is a bad idea. I think it&#x27;s a great idea and should be adopted by all retailers. We already do the same thing with sales tax. Tarriffs are close to sales tax in there effect to consumers so it makes sense to show it up front. It lets customers see just how much more they have to pay due to the, ever changing, tariffs.<p>Good for Amazon.
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jl616 天前
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?
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ChrisMarshallNY16 天前
I was just talking to a couple friends of mine, about this, yesterday. They run a medium-sized manufacturing business that has almost all their work done overseas.<p>Another friend of mine was just laid off, as a transportation broker, directly because of the tariffs.<p>The tariffs have the potential to drive tens of thousands of small- and medium businesses into bankruptcy, overnight.<p>I feel as if this was not well thought-out. Maybe megacorps, like Tesla, can weather it, but many smaller businesses have no buffer.<p>That said, the manufacturing imbalance and trade imbalance is a very real problem that needs to be solved. I just feel as if we are approaching it in a manner that is simplistic, and favors only very large corporations.
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reverendsteveii16 天前
&quot;This is hostile and political.&quot; --The President. No, Really.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;04&#x2F;29&#x2F;white-house-blasts-amazon-over-tariff-cost-report-hostile-and-political-act.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;04&#x2F;29&#x2F;white-house-blasts-amazon-ov...</a>
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TrackerFF16 天前
Cool, it is rare to see that kind of transparency. I live in a country with both tariffs &#x2F; 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.<p>I&#x27;ve been checking out some of the aliexpress &#x2F; temu &#x2F; etc. subreddits, and US consumers are losing their marbles over the new import duties. Most stores have now rolled out those on check-out.
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xtiansimon16 天前
Interesting.<p>AliExpress added this last week as a line item cost during checkout.<p>I took up a new hobby in 2021 and was buying materials from Amazon and eBay. There’s more transparency on eBay for products shipped directly from China. As a result I stated to realize when shopping on Amazon (and not buying a known Branded Manufacturer, but choosing same category product at lower price) I was buying the exact same low quality Chinese products on Amazon as I was buying on eBay and paying more. Of course, Amazon has better customer service and more consistent return policies compared to eBay stores. There’s benefits for the price, but the products are the same.<p>Then I discovered AliExpress, and found the same products I was buying on eBay, and Amazon, but my costs were even less. Downside was longer shipping times, and (effectively) no returns.<p>Last week I looked to buy more materials at AliExpress, and found the line item tariff cost had doubled the price.<p>I think you see the differences I’m highlighting here are cost and customer service—ALL for the SAME products.<p>I’m bummed my hobby costs are going up for the same quality products. I’m bummed the sub-800$ exemption is going away.<p>I believe AliExpress is the Chinese equivalent of eBay. Everybody is buying from the wholesale marketplace, Alibaba. If an Amazon seller is adding tariffs, then I think they’re an AliExpress seller on the Amazon platform.
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largbae16 天前
Would this not reveal every importer&#x27;s gross margin to its competitors? The tariff is only on the importer&#x27;s &quot;landed cost&quot;. If the tariff is itemized(and not just a made up number by the seller), then you can easily work out their gross profit margin and the price they are paying their OEM.<p>It seems like no seller would want this.
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alphabetting16 天前
Over half of Amazon&#x27;s third party sellers are Chinese companies who regularly false report to dodge tariffs on their products in ways that American competitors can&#x27;t. Amazon claims to police them but they&#x27;re extremely reliant on them at this point and the Chinese sellers just start up new brands if penalized.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;zackkanter&#x2F;status&#x2F;1908343624464576666" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;zackkanter&#x2F;status&#x2F;1908343624464576666</a>
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hypeatei16 天前
I&#x27;m surprised they&#x27;re able to calculate all of this properly in the first place. The U.S. doesn&#x27;t have government personnel at the ports so the importer self reports. There isn&#x27;t a central system to administer these tariffs either so during chaotic moments, you go based off the tweet of the hour I guess.
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robalpha16 天前
Wouldn&#x27;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.
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rubyfan16 天前
Is this a reputable news site? There are some warning signs that make me believe it’s sponsored content. It feels less like news and more like propaganda?
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hamilyon216 天前
Can Amazon please also list every subsidy and incentive, state, federal and local, tax evasion loophole and proportion of it passed to consumer?
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Workaccount216 天前
Electronics components vendors have recently implemented this. There is a notice next to some parts that they will be subject to tariff charges. When you go to checkout there is an additional cost line with those charges.<p>I recently had to buy some transformers, and had no other choice but to get bent over. The price more than doubled at checkout.
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xipho16 天前
On a &quot;price awareness vein&quot; - I&#x27;ve thought that a killer app would be a phone app that runs in a grocery store, it detects costs, brands, and sizes, and overlays two things 1) the option that is cheaper per mass and 2) whether there are cheaper options in other stores. Bonus for &quot;this no-name is the same as that brand-name&quot;.<p>Imagine waving your phone, or having on your VR glasses and getting this feedback &quot;instantly&quot;.<p>Plus, you can sell what you learned to sellers so they can out-compete one-another (and drive prices down for consumers).<p>In a sci-fi world this would turn grocery stores into Faraday cages quickly.<p>Maybe not useful for the Doordash generation, but the majority of human life can&#x27;t afford such.
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dapf16 天前
Great! They should do that in every single country, for all tariffs.
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al_borland16 天前
I’d like them to add a Made in USA section where people can find tariff free products that support local businesses and workers.
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coliveira16 天前
This may backfire. Will they also show how much their profits are costing consumers?
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djoldman16 天前
It would be amazing if there was regulation requiring the display of a &quot;total tariff&quot; line item to every product and service offered or listed for sale. Perhaps subject to a minimum total price, so that buying an apple didn&#x27;t require such a burden on retailers.<p>The idea being that folks would pay attention to this stuff. There are a zillion tariffs affecting prices and they just sit there for decades.
umvi16 天前
I&#x27;m seeing other stories now that this punchbowl news article is made up (ex: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;live&#x2F;2025&#x2F;apr&#x2F;29&#x2F;hsbc-trade-war-bad-debts-trump-automotive-tariffs-stock-markets-business-live-news" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;live&#x2F;2025&#x2F;apr&#x2F;29&#x2F;hsbc-t...</a>)
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tbatchelli16 天前
CamelCamelCamel records the prices over time of items in Amazon. It&#x27;s helpful because they fluctuate quite a bit, so you can tell when you might be overpaying. In any case, that can be the database of record for the tariff effects if Amazon does not itemize the tariff costs.
devsda16 天前
Will Amazon also display the referral fee they charge the seller for the purchase ?<p>Its good to know if Amazon&#x27;s cut is on the total price including the tariff or the price excluding the tariff. It&#x27;ll help understand whether Amazon is profiting from the situation or not.
xivzgrev16 天前
This one sparks joy!<p>I hope other retailers follow suit
apawloski16 天前
In an administration that changes critical economic policies on a week-to-week basis, listing this as surcharge makes sense. Easier to change than baking into the price.
josefritzishere16 天前
I am already seeing tarrifs on invoices for a few weeks. We immediately adjusted COGS and list in our price book and passed these increases on to customers.
cactusplant737416 天前
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.axios.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;04&#x2F;29&#x2F;tariffs-amazon-prime-day-sellers-report" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.axios.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;04&#x2F;29&#x2F;tariffs-amazon-prime-day-se...</a><p>&gt; According to e-commerce software company SmartScout, 900 products on Amazon saw increased prices since April 9, with an average increase of 29%.<p>Tariffs aren&#x27;t having a big impact yet.
Wistar16 天前
WH: “This is a hostile and political act by Amazon.”<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.realclearpolitics.com&#x2F;video&#x2F;2025&#x2F;04&#x2F;29&#x2F;wh_hostile_and_political_act_of_chinese_propaganda_by_amazon_to_show_tariff_costs.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.realclearpolitics.com&#x2F;video&#x2F;2025&#x2F;04&#x2F;29&#x2F;wh_hostil...</a>
niam16 天前
I wonder if they keep this after Trump&#x27;s gone, especially for countries whose tariffs were high before Trump. I as a customer would prefer they did.<p>My uninformed guess is that this hurts the bottom line in at least the short term if customers are less likely to purchase an item which sports high tariffs (even if they might otherwise buy the item if the precise tariff were hidden). And the long term benefit to global trade (inasmuch as one sees that as a good thing, which I mostly do) isn&#x27;t something that&#x27;s very testable, much less certain.
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charonn016 天前
&gt; Amazon.com denied a report on Tuesday that it planned to disclose the cost that U.S. tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump were adding to its products, after the White House blasted the initial story.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;retail-consumer&#x2F;white-house-amazon-tariff-price-announcement-is-hostile-2025-04-29&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;retail-consumer&#x2F;white-house...</a>
Technetium16 天前
News sure moves fast... &quot;Amazon denies it planned to disclose cost of US tariffs on its website&quot; - April 29, 2025 12:01 PM EDT: [1]<p>&quot;Trump complained to Bezos before Amazon said it scrapped idea to display tariff cost&quot; - April 29 2025 9:01 AM EDT: [2]<p>&quot;Amazon denies tariff pricing plan after White House calls it &quot;hostile and political&quot;&quot; - April 29, 2025 12:01 PM EDT: [3]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;retail-consumer&#x2F;white-house-amazon-tariff-price-announcement-is-hostile-2025-04-29&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;retail-consumer&#x2F;white-house...</a> [2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;04&#x2F;29&#x2F;white-house-blasts-amazon-over-tariff-cost-report-hostile-and-political-act.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;04&#x2F;29&#x2F;white-house-blasts-amazon-ov...</a> [3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.axios.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;04&#x2F;29&#x2F;tariffs-amazon-prime-day-sellers-report" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.axios.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;04&#x2F;29&#x2F;tariffs-amazon-prime-day-se...</a>
insane_dreamer16 天前
Amazon quickly backed down once attacked by the White House over it.<p>Intimidation tactics are working.
1970-01-0116 天前
This is absolutely going to backfire. The question is: will it backfire on the POTUS or the merchants? My take is free markets will strongarm the POTUS as they have already demonstrated the ability to do that.
duncangh16 天前
Amazon will add any information to the UX like a hoarder adding trinkets to their collection from the gift store. It&#x27;s kind of endearing, really
abirch16 天前
This 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.
mandeepj16 天前
* Amazon showing tariff costs is &#x27;hostile and political act,&#x27; WH says*<p>WH is now filled with extremely dumb people. The other day, the Orange clown was telling automakers to not raise prices due to tariffs, instead absorb them &lt;face palm&gt;
indymike16 天前
I&#x27;d love to have this kind of transparency on mandated fees and taxes on everything.
deagle5016 天前
So they want to show the government&#x27;s markup but not their own?
dizhn16 天前
I am not sure if everyone was able to read the paywalled article but the general consensus from the comments seem to be the expectation that amazon will list tariffs for all products.<p>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&#x27;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.<p>I really do doubt Amazon will do something much different in the US. Can someone with access to the article comment on this?
abhisek16 天前
The original article is behind a paywall so can&#x27;t really read through it. But am guessing its something to do with the trade war with China. Alternative information source suggests it has something to do with sellers who import from China are pulling off from the Prime Day.<p>&gt; Tariffs on sellers&#x27; goods are putting Amazon in an awkward position for Prime Day, said Arun Sundaram, an analyst at CFRA Research.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;retail-consumer&#x2F;some-amazon-sellers-are-pulling-out-prime-day-amid-trump-tariffs-2025-04-28&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;retail-consumer&#x2F;some-amazon...</a>
gclawes16 天前
Good. Make it an API service.
SilverBirch16 天前
It&#x27;s thoroughly satisfying to see how quickly Amazon have had to go hostile on Trump after Bezos immolating the WSJ to satisfy Trump. This is a massive attack on the Trump administration you&#x27;ve to wonder if Bezos regrets playing along in the run up to this.
EasyMark16 天前
This is the right thing to do. Transparency is good. Let people decide if they want to pay the backdoor VAT that Trump is adding to their lives. When politicians scream and wail when transparency increases, then you know the right thing is happening.
bluedino16 天前
Sure, but don&#x27;t fix fake reviews or counterfeit products or...
MBlume16 天前
Trump will certainly consider this provocation, so perhaps the news here is that Amazon considered this worth it, even given the inevitable retaliation.
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Etheryte16 天前
The Red Coalition ad under the article hits a very ironic note:<p>&gt; You voted for American energy dominance—and the Trump Administration is delivering. From solar to oil &amp; gas, they’re unleashing it all. More energy. More jobs. Higher wages. America is booming—because when we lead, we win.
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Trasmatta16 天前
Maybe Jeff shouldn&#x27;t have been so eager to jump on the Trump train.
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jstummbillig16 天前
Can I assume that <i>nobody</i> is actually commenting on the article (considering it&#x27;s paywalled, on a site that I personally never heard about before) and every comment in this thread is spawned off of 7 words of headline?
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anovikov16 天前
Not sure what they are planning to gain this way. Just alienate Trump administration and become a subject of government action? That&#x27;s near certain to happen when you fall out of line.
kebokyo16 天前
I can’t read the actual article because I can’t find a way past the paywall… but I am fairly certain this is a political play.<p>If consumers see two products, one from China and another from Vietnam, both with their tariff markups listed, I have a feeling they’d pick the Vietnam product more often due to the lower markup. This makes Trump happy because he clearly wants us to stop buying Chinese products.
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jll2916 天前
I hope amazon.com will call them &quot;Trump tariffs&quot; to make sure who is to blame.
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yapyap16 天前
Bezos slighting Trump?<p>Interesting
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CodeCompost16 天前
Tariffs are good. Tax the consumers and pass them as tax breaks to the rich. &#x2F;s
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Der_Einzige16 天前
I hate the cheeto in chief, but I also really hate low quality Chinese shit. I&#x27;d love to see Timu and the myraid amounts of trash that Amazon sells finally die.<p>That said, China makes a lot of good quality things too and a whole lot of things that we have no hope of being competitive in producing.<p>Also, it&#x27;s not like anything we bring back to the USA under the circumstances is going to be higher quality.<p>I was already buying a lot of clothes from brands that pride themselves on trying hard to do Made in America, like Schott Nyc. It&#x27;ll be interesting to see how this impacts them or brands like Thursday.<p>I really want the impact of this to be to force Americans to buy fewer, higher quality things instead of bloat loads of cheap shit. I don&#x27;t think that this will be the impact of the policy, unfortunately...<p>Also, given that Cheeto promised no more IRS, I shouldn&#x27;t have to pay federal income taxes this year. Don&#x27;t tread on me zion don.
horns4lyfe16 天前
Are they going to show the cost of tariffs for other countries as well? Or just partisan hackiness?
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rayiner16 天前
Amazon is the archetype of a destructive business. It’s a business that depends completely on flooding the country with cheap chinese crap, delivered overnight by desperate recent immigrants. The archetype of the hollowing out of america championed by the Reagan&#x2F;Bush GOP.
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