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Amazon says it won't list tariff charges on ultracheap Haul site after White House calls idea 'hostile'


The back-and-forth comes as online retailers have become among the first and most visible places where consumers are confronting higher prices due to tariffs.

Punchbowl News first reported that Amazon was planning to show how much the Trump administration’s tariffs are adding to the price of each product. This is a hostile and political act by Amazon,” Leavitt said from the White House briefing room, alongside Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. A senior White House official told NBC News that Trump called Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Tuesday morning to express his displeasure at the idea that the company would display tariff costs to consumers.

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