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Amazon, Donald Trump warned the impact of the global trade war, sending the shares of the e-commerce giant’s landslide to the second quarter for the second quarter.

In the financial administration on Thursday, Seattle-based company added a “Tariff and Trade Policy” to the list of factors that risk the earnings.

Amazon, $ 13 billion in the current quarter and $ 17.5 billion dollars $ 17.5 billion in $ 17.5 billion, but a year ago in $ 9.7 billion in $ 17.7 billion.

Analysts warned that in recent weeks may be under pressure from Amazon’s profitability, the Trump Administration can decide on A. trade war It applies to China, up to 145 percent of upright tariffs.

Amazon has been Dick Discounts negotiations He wanted to moisten the effects of sellers and tariffs. Constitutes one-quarter of the items they sell from China.

Goldman Sachs analysts, the results of Amazon can beat $ 5 billion in $ 5 billion in $ 5 billion this year and this year can beat $ 10 billion this year, he said. This will represent a number of $ 6-12 billion in a number of $ 79.2 billion in the financial year of Wall Street.

Amazon predicts net sales between $ 159 billion and $ 164 billion in the current quarter and $ 159 billion with the expectations of analysts 161.4bn expectations.

The quarter of the Seattle-based group increases by 9 percent in the year, the S & P seemed to be $ 155 billion in consensus assessments of Alpha, about $ 155 billion.

The shares in the company, analytical call, was ahead of about 5 percent cheaper after work.

Amazon’s extensive e-commerce platform continued to grow in the first quarter. The net sales in the online retail section increased by 5 percent until a year ago.

This week is Amazon Care horns In conjunction with the US government, the Ultra low-cost Haul platform revealed that the Chinese opponent is a similar movement, the list of imported charges in consumer products.

Haul, who sent goods from the warehouses in China, will be affected by eliminating the rules released from the tasks less than $ 800 from May 2.

White House spokesman Karoline Leavitt said the proposals were “enemies and political action” by Amazon on Tuesday. “Why did I do so when the Biden administration walked to the highest level in 40 years in 40 years?”

Later, Trump spoke to the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos before the company took a backdrop.

The company’s Cloud Division missed the expectations of Amazon web services narrow, but continued to show strong signs of growth.

Aws, which manages and offers data centers and offers programs to customers, a slightly short drop in $ 29.4bn, increased to $ 17.3 billion per cent, falling for $ 29.3 billion. The company’s rapid growing advertising business rose to $ 18 percent, $ 13.9 billion.

The company spent $ 24.3 billion in the first quarter, and the previous year was 13.9 billion.

Chief Executive Andy Jassy said that the company was the company earlier this year Planned to spend $ 100 billion This year, in capital expenditures, the vast majority of these expenses were directed to AI initiatives.