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Amazon to appeal German antitrust sanction over price controls (update*)

By Nicholas Hirst and Lewis Crofts ( February 5, 2026, 11:00 GMT | Insight) -- German competition enforcers want Amazon to show “uncompetitive prices,” said the ecommerce giant, as it swore to appeal their antitrust sanction. On Thursday, Germany’s Bundeskartellamt said Amazon’s “systematic interference” in the pricing of sellers on Amazon.de, including sellers competing with Amazon’s own retail arm, broke EU and German antitrust law.Amazon has said it will appeal a German competition verdict finding that its price controls for sellers on its ecommerce platform breached antitrust rules. ...

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