{"id":25992,"date":"2025-04-15T14:33:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T14:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25992"},"modified":"2025-04-15T15:25:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T15:25:47","slug":"trumps-tariff-threat-for-drug-imports-poses-big-political-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25992","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Tariff Threat for Drug imports Poses Big Political Risks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Levies on Americans\u2019 daily prescriptions and other medicines could raise costs, spur rationing and lead to shortages of critical drugs.<\/p>\n

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President Trump\u2019s decision to move a step closer<\/a> to imposing tariffs on imported medicines poses considerable political risk, because Americans could face higher prices and more shortages of critical drugs.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration filed a federal notice<\/a> on Monday saying that it had begun an investigation into whether imports of medicines and pharmaceutical ingredients threaten America\u2019s national security, an effort to lay the groundwork for possible tariffs on foreign-made drugs.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump has repeatedly said he planned to impose such levies, to shift overseas production of medicines back to the United States. Experts said that tariffs were unlikely to achieve that goal: Moving manufacturing would be hugely expensive and would take years.<\/p>\n

It was not clear how long the investigation would last or when the planned tariffs might go into effect. Mr. Trump started the inquiry under a legal authority known as Section 232<\/a> that he has used for other industries like cars and lumber.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr. Trump said in remarks to reporters on Monday that pharmaceutical tariffs would come in the \u201cnot too distant future.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t make our own drugs anymore,\u201d Mr. Trump said. \u201cThe drug companies are in Ireland, and they\u2019re in lots of other places, China.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Levies on Americans\u2019 daily prescriptions and other medicines could raise costs, spur rationing and lead to shortages of critical drugs.President Trump\u2019s decision to move a step closer to imposing tariffs on imported medicines poses considerable political risk, because Americans could face higher prices and more shortages of critical drugs.The Trump administration filed a federal notice on Monday saying that it had begun an investigation into whether imports of medicines and pharmaceutical ingredients threaten America\u2019s national security, an effort to lay the groundwork for possible tariffs on foreign-made drugs.Mr. Trump has repeatedly said he planned to impose such levies, to shift overseas production of medicines back to the United States. Experts said that tariffs were unlikely to achieve that goal: Moving manufacturing would be hugely expensive and would take years.It was not clear how long the investigation would last or when the planned tariffs might go into effect. Mr. Trump started the inquiry under a legal authority known as Section 232 that he has used for other industries like cars and lumber.Mr. Trump said in remarks to reporters on Monday that pharmaceutical tariffs would come in the \u201cnot too distant future.\u201d\u201cWe don\u2019t make our own drugs anymore,\u201d Mr. Trump said. \u201cThe drug companies are in Ireland, and they\u2019re in lots of other places, China.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25994,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25992"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25995,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25992\/revisions\/25995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}