Washington – The US e-commerce giant Amazon announced Wednesday that as of April 28, it will charge a 5% surcharge to sellers who use its distribution services to compensate for the high price of gasoline and the very high inflation.

In an alert in the section of its website aimed at companies that sell their products through Amazon in the United States, the firm led by Andy Jassy reported the measure and announced that it is “susceptible to change” depending on how it evolves. the situation.

The additional 5% will only be charged to sellers who use Amazon‘s “FBA” service, which stores, packages and distributes their products, and not to those who, despite finding customers on the platform, are responsible for sending the product themselves. .

“Like everyone else, we have experienced significant cost increases and, whenever possible, we have absorbed them to reduce the impact on our partners,” they indicated from the firm based in Seattle (Washington state).

Yesterday it was known that the Consumer Price Index in the United States (CPI, what the final consumer pays) shot up in March to 8.5% -six tenths above that of February-, which is the highest record of the consumer prices in this country since the end of 1981.

And this same Wednesday the prices that producers pay in the United States for raw materials and other supplies were published, which rose by 11.2% year-on-year last March, the highest figure recorded since this indicator began to be calculated. in November 2010