Last week, Jeff Bezos told his team Amazon would start displaying tariff impacts on product pages. You know, transparency – the thing billionaires flirt with in private Slack messages but ghost in public.

Then Trump called him.

Within hours, the project "paused." No announcement, no rollout, just Bezos backing away from the idea like it was a protester with a press badge.

And when someone asked the White House about it, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called it “a political and hostile act by Amazon.”… For doing math!

So I built it myself.

Introducing:

The Amazon Trumpflation Calculator

Because nothing says freedom like an $84 tariff on your $49 pan from China

What it does:

  • Finds the country of origin on Amazon product pages
  • Looks up actual tariff rates
  • Shows:
    • Final price if Amazon's price excludes the tariff
    • Base value if the price already includes the tariff
  • Inserts a neat little info card under the product price with math Bezos was too scared to show

I call it a Chrome extension.
Karoline Leavitt would probably call it domestic economic terrorism.

Posted by Still_Tension_8026

40 comments

  1. That’s a pretty neat tool you’ve built! 👌

    I wish the grifting bastard would just heel over but that’s too good for him.

    Billionaires kissing the ring for an idiot

  2. As soon as Bezos bailed, I knew someone would create TariffTariffTariff!

    Thanks you kind person!

  3. The way it’s worded/portrayed really makes it seem like the tariffs bring the prices down at a glance.

    “Before tariffs imposed – $122”

    “After tariffs imposed – $20”

  5. To think, it was a conservative government in Canada that removed the hidden tax on goods when it created the Goods and Services tax, and required the GST to be identified separately. This was intentional because the government wanted citizens to know the taxes they were paying.

    How times have changed.

  6. Why would you not get the 15 piece set for ~~$0.08~~ $0.12 more?

  9. You’re giving Bezos way too much credit, he had no involvement besides shutting it down. A team at Amazon Haul, a service few people have ever heard of whose entire business model revolves around a long standing tax loophole for low-value packages direct from China, briefly considered displaying tariffs. [It was never approved.](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/amazon-says-its-not-planning-to-show-tariff-costs-next-to-product-listings#:~:text=The%20Trump%20administration's%20reaction%20appeared,of%20the%20move%20early%20Tuesday.&text=White%20House%20press%20secretary%20Karoline,suggesting%20it%20was%20un%2DAmerican.&text=Your%20browser%20can't%20play%20this%20video.,-Learn%20more)

    The idea that any of the higher-ups had even momentary courage is not accurate.

  11. This is really solid work you have done. Trump is going to be so mad!

  12. Not to be too cynical, but this was never going to happen. The tariff is imposed on the cost the importer pays. No importer wants to show you their wholesale cost. They are not going to show you that they are importing a pan set for $12 that they resell for $49.99 by exposing the actual tariff.

  13. This is really hard to understand. I suggest a redesign.

  17. This is greatly misleading and simply wrong. The price on Amazon $49.00 has in it the initial cost of the product (let’s say $20) PLUS the margin that the importer is imposing on this product as his cost and profit (lets say $29.00). So the tariffs will be imposed not on $49 but on that $20.00 cost of the product from China. Therefore $20 * 2.45 = $49 is the new cost for the importer. If he wants to keep the same profit as previously, you add $29 on that. Therefore the price you will see on Amazon.com will be 49+29= $78.0.

  18. Make an extension. Don’t forget to slip in your affiliate code in every purchase 0.o

  20. The tariff is on the wholesale price that Amazon paid, not the retail price. Unless you know that number, you can’t really calculate the tariff.

  21. If you want to, you could even reference the camelcamelcamel website to find out what the prices were before Tariffs

  24. Not every company/product would be doing the full 145%. How do you figure this out? Companies could choose to absorb some or all of the tariff by reducing their profit margins.

  26. Does anyone have any idea when the current supply of goods in America is expected to run out before the new tariffed goods start selling?

  28. If this is a real extension, I will download it.

    If you build it, they will come!

  31. To be fair it wouldn’t be on top of the listed sale price it would be on wholesale so probably more like (49.91)/2=24.96*1.45=36.192*2=72.384

  32. This is fantastic. Do you have any plans to port it to Firefox at all?

  33. Seriously, I wish all the sellers would do this for real.

  35. I want this!

    But, I fear it will not be approved.

    Or, if it is, the Amazon website will change in some way to break it…

  36. You not uploading to the official extension store lol

  38. I wish it would leave the „Country of Origin“ until you click it and a Trump Soundboard tells you from which country. Bonus: if he tells you then also what this country does

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