Attorney General Karl Racine said Amazon requires third party sellers to give its customers the same or better prices than they offer elsewhere.But since Amazon’s prices include fees, which can run as high as 40 percent of the total price, Racine said the policy could make prices for the same product more expensive on platforms that compete with Amazon.

The legal action is the latest of multiple state and federal suits filed against the largest tech companies in an effort to limit alleged abuses of their outsized market power.Amazon disagreed with the lawsuit, saying its policies were aimed at keeping prices low.”The DC attorney general has it exactly backwards – sellers set their own prices for the products they offer in our store. Amazon takes pride in the fact that we offer l…