UK Competition Regulator Launches Probe Into Amazon -- Update
2022年7月6日 - 09:08PM
Dow Jones News
By Jaime Llinares Taboada
The U.K. competition regulator said Wednesday that it has
launched an investigation into Amazon.com Inc. over anticompetitive
behaviour on its retail platform.
The Competition and Markets Authority said the probe will
consider whether the U.S. group has a dominant position in the U.K.
and whether it is distorting competition to favor its own retail
business or sellers, compared with other third-party sellers on the
Amazon U.K. Marketplace.
"Thousands of U.K. businesses use Amazon to sell their products
and it is important they are able to operate in a competitive
market. Any loss of competition is a loss to consumers," Sarah
Cardell, General Counsel at the CMA, said.
Amazon said in a statement that it will cooperate with the
regulator. "We will work closely with the CMA during their
investigation, although we believe we've always worked hard to help
small businesses selling on Amazon to succeed, which is in both
their and our best interests," a spokesperson for the company
said.
The CMA noted that it hasn't reached any conclusions yet as to
whether or not competition law has been infringed.
The regulator said this probe follows a current European
Commission investigation looking into similar concerns.
The CMA previously opened an investigation into Amazon and
Google over concerns that they haven't been doing enough to tackle
fake reviews.
Write to Jaime Llinares Taboada at jaime.llinares@wsj.com;
@JaimeLlinaresT
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
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