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Amazon will begin to list the tariff impact their prices face on their website.

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This claim was made by Jacqui Heinrich on April 29th, 2025. After investigating into Heinrich's career, she is currently serving as a Senior Whitehouse Correspondent and anchor for FOX News. It may be interesting to note FOX News' generally acknowledged conservative bias, but I personally do not know if Heinrich shares those political beliefs herself. 

Upon looking into the more recent news surrounding this claim, I found it to be false. I was able to find an Associated Press article that reported that Amazon will not go through with listing the tariffs affecting their prices on their website. According to the article, this news came shortly after the White House called such an action a "hostile act" (Grantham-Phillips and Boak). It appears that the White House viewed this act by Amazon as an attempted political message to get customers upset about the tariffs taking place, causing those same customers to develop anger towards the political party in power.

Link to AP Article: https://apnews.com/article/amazon-tariff-prices-trump-white-house-8598569632263872a6c04f7ef330c0fd

https://x.com/JacquiHeinrich/status/1917255912638521427

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The claim that Amazon will begin listing tariff impacts on product prices is false. While a report suggested that Amazon planned to display how much of an item's cost is from tariffs, Amazon clarified that this idea was considered internally for its low-cost Haul store but was never approved and will not be implemented. The White House reacted to the initial report, with Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt calling the purported move a "hostile and political act".

https://apnews.com/article/amazon-tariff-prices-trump-white-house-8598569632263872a6c04f7ef330c0fd?

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Initially Amazon considered implementing this feature which was criticized by the White House. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt labeled this move as a "hostile and political act" saying that it was an attempt to sway public opinion againts the administration's tariff policies. Amazon ultimatly decided to not proceed with the plan and current president Donald Trump. stated that Amazon found Jeff Bezos "did the right thing" by not proceeding with the plan. I say the claim is misleading because Amazon's intention to list the tariff impacts was true at the time of of Heinrich's report but it will not be implemented. https://apnews.com/video/trump-says-amazon-founder-bezos-did-the-right-thing-by-scrapping-plan-to-show-tariff-costs-eebe691b398f4b6f814d48e93dee6ca2 https://apnews.com/article/amazon-tariff-prices-trump-white-house-8598569632263872a6c04f7ef330c0fd

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