So are antitrust regulators going to investigate this deal?Īmazon definitely has to file paperwork about the deal with the FTC, there’s no way around that. alleging Amazon’s behavior around its third-party marketplace vendors violates antitrust law. The European Commission is likewise investigating if Amazon’s behavior with third-party vendors breaks competition law in the EU.Īmazon’s AWS business, which controls at least a third of the cloud services market, is also reportedly under antitrust scrutiny, and there are lawsuits underway in both Washington state and D.C. Although the FTC hasn’t filed a suit against Amazon yet, most observers expect the commission to tackle Amazon’s retail practices. Although Amazon is not the only company on the agency’s radar by a long shot, Khan came to national prominence with a 2017 Yale Law Journal article arguing for stronger antitrust enforcement against Amazon. One of the House staffers who authored that report was Lina Khan, who is now pushing an aggressive antitrust enforcement agenda as the FTC’s chair. (Apple, Alphabet and the company now known as Meta also got dinged in that report.) The House Judiciary Committee also recently asked the Justice Department to probe if Amazon had been truthful during the course of the investigation leading to that report. A House committee probing Big Tech issued a blockbuster report in late 2020 accusing Amazon of abusing its “monopoly power,” and saying the company should be split. It sure is! The FTC has been probing Amazon since June 2019 at least, and the investigations are reportedly still going strong.Īmazon is also in trouble with Congress. Isn’t Amazon already under antitrust investigation?
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