Amazon has no choice but to display tariffs on prices now

Here's immoderate dumb worldly that conscionable happened:

• Punchbowl News, a new-ish DC work which has an fantabulous grounds of governmental scoops but hasn't done overmuch tech reporting, published a single-sourced rumor that Amazon would soon statesman showing tariffs adjacent to prices.
• Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was asked astir this astatine a White House briefing.
• White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stepped successful to say that she had conscionable discussed this communicative with President Trump. "This is simply a hostile and governmental enactment by Amazon," she said.
• Amazon caved astir immediately. "The squad that runs our ultra debased outgo Amazon Haul store considered the thought of listing import charges connected definite products. This was ne'er approved and is not going to happen," the company's Tim Doyle, told us.

Okay - a mates things. First, determination was nary "act" by Amazon, conscionable a single-sourced communicative that everyone wanted to believe. So Leavitt (and, if you judge her, Trump) reacted with atomic fury to the mere idea that a large American retailer mightiness adhd terms transparency to its website, due to the fact that that transparency would marque it ever much evident that their tariff plans are fundamentally nonsense. That fury resulted successful …

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