{"id":29072,"date":"2020-11-11T11:27:26","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T19:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29072"},"modified":"2020-11-11T11:27:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T19:27:26","slug":"eu-files-antitrust-charges-against-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29072","title":{"rendered":"EU files antitrust charges against Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The European Union&#8217;s antitrust watchdog leveled new charges against Amazon on Tuesday over the company\u2019s treatment of third-party sellers.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The European Commission accused the online retail giant of relying on non-public business data of independent sellers \u2014 such number of orders shipped and seller\u2019s past performance \u2014 to benefit its own business.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Amazon\u2019s \u201cdual role\u201d as a platform that allows independent sellers to sell products and as a retailer itself is at the root of the issue, the commission said.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It also opened a second antitrust investigation into preferential treatment of Amazon\u2019s retail offers and those of marketplace sellers that use the site\u2019s logistics and delivery services.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union&#8217;s antitrust watchdog leveled&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29073,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29072\/revisions\/29073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}