Washington DC has sued Amazon for allegedly violating the district’s competition laws by illegally tying merchants to restrictive selling rules.
Karl Racine, attorney-general for the District of Columbia, accused the ecommerce giant of charging third-party merchants fees of as much as 40 per cent of a product’s price to sell through its website, and then requiring them not to charge less on other platforms.
The company has already been charged in the EU over its treatment of European merchants who use its platform to sell goods, but this is the first time it has faced similar accusations in the US.
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