A week has passed since President Donald Trump imposed huge tariffs on Chinese imports to the United States, but politics did not force Amazon buyers in the United States to delve into their portfolios. Recent data from websites reviewed by Wired does not show much dramatic price increases in most categories of products on the E -commerce platform.
On Wednesday, the average price of goods at Amazon was higher than the previous 90 days in just nine to 27 high levels monitored by the price tracking company, what he says Collects data on billions of different items. Categories showing higher average prices included motoring, art and craftsmanship and musical instruments, although the enhance in almost every group was below 1 percent.
Prices were lower in 16 categories, including devices and toys. Most of the declines were on average less than 0.5 percent. Amazon prices change regularly for several reasons, including when sellers offer offers and information collected by tracking websites can assist illuminate these many changes.
CEO of Amazon, Andy Jassa He said on CNBC Last week, he guessed that Trump’s policy would raise costs for sellers on the Amazon market, which would ultimately be transferred to clients in the form of higher prices. This can happen very much in the near future if the tariff rates in Chinese imports remain the same or enhance for other countries.
But at least for now, E -commerce valuation experts say that there are three leading reasons why Amazon sellers maintain their stable prices: many still have existing wrestling in the US, they are afraid to violate Amazon price rules and remain willing to wait for the president of mercury.
“In addition to a few isolated niche segments, we have not observed any significant price increases so far,” says Keepda General Director Julian Johann. “However, this situation can evolve in the coming weeks and months.”
Camelcamelcamel, another service that provides price history for Amazon products, says that prices remain largely unchanged over the past week for both positions, such as iPads, as well as household staples, including the base of the household, including the basics of the household, including the basics of the household, including household staples, including household staples, including household staples toothpaste AND Peanut butter.
Data suits what Dani Nadel, president and operational director of Feedvisor, says that they hear from some thousands of companies that apply the company’s price software to manage their offers on Amazon and Walmart. “Many accept a waiting approach and see and do not want to act hastily,” he says, noticing that some reserves on wrestling at the beginning of this year in anticipation of a trade war.
ABOUT 40 percent Of the items of consumer buying at Amazon, they are sold by Gigant E -commerce itself. Independent buyers sell and value everything else – often using software that can automatically adjust the prices that consumers see. When many sellers offer the same item, people with the lowest price are more likely that Amazon and ultimately win sales. Estimates suggest this over half Amazon merchants are based in China, so a wide selection of goods on the platform can be exposed to Trump tariffs.
Truthful price fears
Merchants from the Amazon, who do not have stocks of goods sitting in American warehouses, are in a more challenging position to absorb the effects of Trump tariffs. The import of a recent inventory from China costs much more, but immediately transferring costs to the buyer can cause Amazon alarms.
Nadel says Amazon “”fair prices“The rules punish merchants, including potentially removing their offers, if they suddenly and dramatically raise the price of their products. The exact thresholds that can lead to the removal of the list were not disclosed in public, he says, so sellers often engage in the” uncertain dance “of gradual inequalities. They are reliable that they are not distributed on the market. However – says Nadel.