Amazon is adding fuel surcharges for Canadian sellers starting April 17
Amazon is implementing a fuel surcharge on fulfillment fees for Canada-based sellers starting April 17, a spokesperson for the e-commerce giant confirmed to CBC News on Thursday.
In response to rising oil prices, the company will implement a 3.5 percent surcharge.
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Amazon is implementing a fuel surcharge on fulfillment fees for Canada-based sellers starting April 17, a spokesperson for the e-commerce giant confirmed to CBC News on Thursday.
A 3.5 percent surcharge will apply to those using Fulfillment by Amazon to sell on the Amazon website in the US and Canada. Sellers who use the company’s multichannel fulfillment will face a surcharge starting May 2.
“Increased costs in fuel and logistics have increased operating costs across the industry,” the spokesperson said in a statement, adding that the company has “absorbed these increases” so far.
“But like other major carriers, when costs remain high we implement temporary surcharges to partially recover these costs,” the spokesperson wrote.
“We are committed to the success of our selling partners and maintaining a wide selection and low prices for our customers.”
Many major consumer services companies have added fuel surcharges to their base rates in the weeks since the beginning of the global energy crisis that began with the US and Israel attacks on Iran.
Iran partially retaliated by closing the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway through which a fifth of the world’s oil passes.
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