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President Donald Trump is facing pressure from U.S. hospitals and generic drugmakers to exempt medical goods from his new tariffs on Chinese imports, as they join big pharma lobbyists who have said such trade barriers will cause shortages of medicines and higher prices in the United States.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-faces-pressure-us-industry-over-china-tariff-medicines-2025-02-06/


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[-] JoeDyrt@lemmy.ca 4 points 19 hours ago

Tariffs cause lower supply and higher prices? WhooDa-thunkit?!

[-] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Nobody:

Absolutely Nobody*:

Reuters: "Trump feels"

[-] thejml@lemm.ee 5 points 22 hours ago

The only pressure Trump feels is money.

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