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There are practical reasons why Amazon might have deferred posting the cost of tariffs.

(1). The tariff rates keep jumping around, depending on Trump's whims. Constant revisions of those figures could get expensive.

(2) Some of what's being sold is pre-tariff stock. How can the pre- and post-costs be merged? No practical way.

(3) Unpredictable future tariffs and costs may lead some to raise prices in anticipation of what may come. Better to lose sales than lose money on sales.

Those concerned about getting a ball-park figure about the increases might check out Camelcamelcamel.com. It keeps a historic record of Amazon prices that'll allow rough before and after comparisons.

There are almost always ways to work around censorship.

Here's RFE's home page: https://about.rferl.org/service/russian-service/

Here's RFE's suggestions for getting around blocking: https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-censorship-vpn-reporting/31737775.html

Separately, however, India's government did previously attack Apple over its similar warnings in October 2023. In that case, the warnings chiefly went to journalists and opposition politicians in the country.

Apple has a habit of repeating its mistakes. It went into and stayed in China's despite its repressive regime. Finally seeing the necessity of reducing its dependence on China, it moves. But where does it move to? To India, which while better still has serious problems.

While India is a multiparty democracy, the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has presided over discriminatory policies and a rise in persecution affecting the Muslim population. The constitution guarantees civil liberties including freedom of expression and freedom of religion, but harassment of journalists, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and other government critics has increased significantly under Modi. The BJP has increasingly used government institutions to target political opponents. Muslims, scheduled castes (Dalits), and scheduled tribes (Adivasis) remain economically and socially marginalized. —Freedom House
https://freedomhouse.org/country/india/freedom-world/2023

After years of promising a lawsuit, the US Department of Justice has finally brought an antitrust suit against Apple. 

That hints at what's going on here. With the election coming up in November, Biden's DOJ is showboating. "See," it is saying, "we're trying to do something about those big tech monopolies." Given how long these disputes last, this lawsuit is unlikely to be decided—perhaps in Apple's favor—before the election.

Apple's lawyers and those of its Silicon Valley neighbors do not impress. When you're fighting an opponent with the size and reach of the EU, you need to be careful not to leave any legal loose ends lying about. They will come around to bite.

That's why I took care when I settled a copyright dispute with one of the largest literary estates on the planet represented near the last by one of the top one-hundred largest law firms in the U.S. Yes, I'd won handily. My opponents bailed out rather than risk losing on concurrent motions for summary judgment. They told the judge they'll settle out of court. Shortly after, the federal judge gave me a final victory up by dismissing their suit "with prejudice." That meant that the estate could never bring it up again. I'd won on the merits, a powerful fair-use argument I transformed into literary commentary for the closing chapter of my contested book, Untangling Tolkien. But I took an additional precautions. I negotiated a written settlement that removed all doubt and left me free to publish unhindered by them under any circumstances. 

Apple (and I suspect the rest) are taking the opposite tack, pushing back against the law and the ruling in an effort to see how much they can get away with. If they had a scrap of sense, they would have followed up this court decision by a written settlement that specified just what they could and could not do. By not doing that, they're facing yet another clash with the EU, In addition, they're facing additional disputes with the DOJ in the U.S. along with lawsuits from the AGs in at least 12 states and civil disputes that are popping up all over.

If this was a Western movie, a flock of hungry vultures would have begun to circle over their heads signaling yet more trouble to come.