Antitrust Issues Continue to Plague Amazon

Another European Commission investigation follows the House Judiciary Committee hearing.

Just days after Amazon opened a 215,000-square-foot cargo facility at an airport in Germany, the European Commission said it appears the ecommerce platform has breached EU antitrust rules by “distorting competition in online retail markets.”

It’s an issue we’ve heard about before—the Commission launched a similar investigation in July 2019. Now, it says Amazon is still “systematically relying on non-public business data of independent sellers who sell on its marketplace,” which it then uses to benefit its own retail business as it competes with those sellers.

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