Zainab Yahya
Amazon confirmed the application of an additional fee of 3.5% for fuel and logistics services provided to three vendors and the application and implementation of this decision begins on 17 April 2026, with a formal notification sent by the company to its partners, according to the CNBC ' s explanatory report today, 2 April 2026.
Increase in world oil prices
This decision is the result of the rise in world oil prices, resulting in an increase in all freight costs, operation and production sector, and Amazon added in its own home that it had incurred this increase from an earlier period before it had to impose such temporary fees.
The world oil markets and the rise in the rough contracts of the International Energist Month of June rose by more than 6 per cent and reached $107.35 per barrel.
Amazon is hosting a million vendors.
Therefore, the Amazon platform hosts 1 million vendors, making additional fees widely impacting on the widest range of e-commerce, so while all distribution, shipping and transport costs are increasing globally and shipments are blocked across the Harms Strait.
The spokesman for the company indicated that these new charges were less than those imposed by competition and transport companies, and confirmed the obligation of Amazon to support all its partners in selling, despite continuing pressures, to maintain discounted prices for all its clients.
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