Trump’s Angry Call To Bezos Puts a Stop to Amazon’s “Pro-China” Tariff Label

During a Tuesday Press conference, Trump’s White House slammed Amazon for being a “China-aligned company” after the e-retailer placed a tariff surcharge label on products — a move that Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called a “hostile, political act.”

“This is a hostile and political act by Amazon,” Leavitt said at a press conference this week at the White House. “Why didn’t Amazon do this when the Biden administration hiked inflation to the highest level in 40 years?”

The label, which had informed customers of additional charges due to new US tariffs on Chinese imports – at least until a call from Trump to Jeff Bezos shut it down!!

Amazon has now said it has ruled out a plan to display a tariff surcharge on product listings after its founder, Jeff Bezos, got an angry call from President Trump and the Press Secretary’s comments.

The e-commerce giant said that it weighed showing import charges on its discount shopping site Haul, but said the idea “was never approved and is not going to happen.” Amazon said it had never considered displaying the charges on its flagship shopping site.

“The team that runs our ultra low-cost Amazon Haul store has considered the idea of listing import charges on certain products,” Amazon spokesperson Tim Doyle told The NY Post. “This was never approved and is not going to happen.”

However, that statement was released only after President Trump placed an angry call to billionaire Bezos over a report in Punchbowl News that Amazon had planned to display “how much of an item’s cost is derived from tariffs – right next to the product’s total listed price.”

Amazon decided on the label because it “doesn’t want to shoulder the blame for the cost of President Donald Trump’s trade war,” according to the report, which cited an anonymous source.

The dustup comes just days after Trump praised former foe Bezos, saying the billionaire mogul has been “great.”

In an interview with The Atlantic, Trump described the transformation of once-adversarial relationships with Bezos and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg into partnerships grounded in mutual “respect.”

The president credited Bezos and Zuckerberg for adjusting their companies’ policies in ways that align with his administration’s values.

“They’ve been great,” Trump said of the tech moguls.