NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon says it’s not planning to list added tariff costs next to product prices on its site despite speculation spanning from a report that claimed the e-commerce giant soon would show new import charges, as well as comments from President Donald Trump’s White House denouncing such a move.
There had reportedly been internal plans of listing the costs being considered by Amazon.
Even those talks were limited.
Only Amazon’s Haul service — its recently launched, low-cost storefront — “considered the idea” of listing import charges on certain products, company spokesperson Tim Doyle said in a statement sent to The Associated Press.
Yet that “was never approved and is not going to happen.”
Punchbowl News had reported that Amazon planned to start showing how much of each product’s cost derived from tariffs “right next to” its total listed price, citing an anonymous source familiar with the matter.
While Amazon later confirmed that it would not be listing such added costs, the Trump administration criticized news of the potential move.
A source familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press that the president also called Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to complain about the reported plans.
At a briefing with reporters, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said she had spoken with Trump “about Amazon’s announcement” and accused the company of taking a “hostile and political act.”
She further attacked the company by suggesting it was un-American.
“Amazon has partnered with a Chinese propaganda arm,” Leavitt said.
The administration seemed to change its tune some following Amazon’s clarifying statement. “Good move,” U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wrote in a response on X.