Amazon Fights EU for Allowing Separate Antitrust Sales Probe
- Company challenges part of new EU probe into retail sales
- Amazon appeal was filed at EU second-highest court Tuesday
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Amazon.com Inc. is contesting a move by European Union antitrust regulators that allowed Italy to run a parallel investigation into concerns over how the e-commerce giant promotes sellers.
Amazon asked the EU’s General Court to strike down part of a European Commission decision last year to open an investigation into the “buy box,” where Amazon highlights sellers of a particular product. The U.S. company said the EU should not have added a carve-out allowing a similar Italian probe to continue.