Amazon denies it had plans to be clear about consumer tariff costs - AAPL Investors Discussions on AppleInsider Forums

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : It's likely that the donation later helped Cook persuade Trump to grant Apple a tariff exemption.
44% : During the election, then candidate Trump proposed day-one tariffs across the board with US trade partners.
42% : While reports of the move angered the White House, it actually comes just two months after what was seen as an attempt to curry favor with Trump.
38% : According to Axios, Bezos has also previously been engaged with Trump on political issues for longer than expected.
33% : In July 2024, he was reportedly advising Trump over his pick for vice president, as well as then killing the Washington Post's planned endorsement of Kamala Harris for the presidency.
31% : Initially, Trump was adamant that there would be no tariff exemptions, then he granted Apple one, then claimed he hadn't.
28% : Trump has repeatedly claimed to be negotiating with China, but China doesn't seem to agree and has made multiple public statements denying that talks were in progress.
26% : What China has said is that initially it wouldn't keep retaliating against the US, but then Trump appears to have been pressuring other countries to raise their own tariffs against China.
24% : A spurious semiconductor investigation was back-dated, and prejudged, so that tariffs will again be imposed on Apple -- although we've passed the point that Trump said they would begin.

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