[ryandrake]

It’s kind of petty to list tariffs as a separate line item and not all the other costs that contribute to the final price. Why just the tariffs, unless Amazon is trying to make a political point?

It strikes me as just as petty as when restaurants started listing “Living Wage Fee” on their bills. They’re bitching and moaning directly to the customer just because they need to pay their staff more and they’re butthurt about it. Why not list all the restaurant’s costs as line items on the bill? They could list the customer’s proportion of the restaurant’s rent, electricity charge, water bill, licensing and taxes if they wanted to. But no, all they put in your face is the Living Wage Fee.

[xnx]

> It’s kind of petty to list tariffs as a separate line item and not all the other costs that contribute to the final price

I can see that, but these tariffs seem unique in that they are 1) sudden 2) significant 3) broad 4) totally unmotivated

[ceejayoz]

And 5) change unpredictably and rapidly.

Rates that change from day to day is a serious problem when shipping containers on a boat takes weeks or months.

[echoangle]

They are making a point, probably hoping that it will help abolish the tariffs (which they fear will reduce their profit by reducing consumption).

[ceejayoz]

> Why just the tariffs, unless Amazon is trying to make a political point?

Why would they not want to make this political point?

[bathtub365]

This seems in line with other government taxes on goods that the consumer ends up paying, like sales tax.

[gruez]

>It’s kind of petty to list tariffs as a separate line item and not all the other costs that contribute to the final price.

Like sales taxes? Or environmental disposal fees? Both are listed separately in my experience.

[welshwelsh]

What's wrong with Amazon trying to make a political point?

Amazon is obviously trying to pressure the Trump admin into easing the tariffs. Why wouldn't they? Why shouldn't they? Amazon is as much a political actor as any other company, and they have a major stakeholder when it comes to tariff policy.

[mrguyorama]

>What's wrong with Amazon trying to make a political point?

Mainly with the concept of letting a ginormous multinational megacorp with more money and resources than 99.9% of the rest of America combined influence our political process is literally how we got here.

The CEO of Amazon is welcome to lobby as himself but letting an extremely already privileged legal fiction (an LLC) have more power over our society is just dumb.