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Buyers shrug off Donald Trump’s 200% tariff menace on pharma
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Buyers shrug off Donald Trump’s 200% tariff menace on pharma

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By Tycoon Herald 5 Min Read Published July 9, 2025
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Buyers shrugged off US President Donald Trump’s menace to impose a 200 per cent tariff on prescribed drugs, betting that the levy is unlikely to be carried out. 

Shares in most huge European drugmakers traded down on Wednesday however then recovered, with many buying and selling flat or barely up. Shareholders in India’s large drugmaking business, which provides the US with about 40 per cent of generic medicine, additionally largely glossed over the menace. The S&P BSE Healthcare index, which tracks Indian pharma shares, was little modified on the shut of buying and selling on Wednesday. 

Emily Subject, an analyst at Barclays, stated buyers had been dismissing the newest pharma tariff menace and dismissing it as “rhetoric”. 

“No one is taking it seriously,” she stated. “The idea of the Taco trade [Trump always chickens out] still prevails.” 

The 200 per cent tariff “looks impractical” and “highly inflationary”, stated a Mumbai-based pharma business analyst. “I don’t think too many people have taken [it] very seriously.”

The US was the vacation spot for nearly a 3rd of India’s practically $30bn of pharma exports within the monetary yr ending in March, in accordance with Indian authorities information. 

Subject stated the dearth of market response was maybe a sign of optimism about progress in negotiations over drug pricing within the US. 

The administration has thus far held off imposing tariffs on the sector. However Trump has repeatedly threatened to take action, and the US commerce division has performed a probe of the nationwide safety implications of counting on overseas manufacturing of medicines, which might result in tariffs on abroad producers. 

The administration has additionally proposed a probably radical overhaul of drug pricing, together with the adoption of so-called most favoured nation pricing. This might require drugmakers to promote on the decrease costs that they provide to comparable developed international locations. 

Alongside the 200 per cent menace, Trump additionally stated on Tuesday that he would give pharma firms a yr or a yr and a half to deliver manufacturing again to the US, earlier than “very high rate” tariffs had been imposed. 

Many US and European drugmakers have introduced massive funding plans for the US to attempt to please the administration and counter the specter of tariffs. 

However Matt Weston, a pharma analyst at UBS, stated 18 months wouldn’t be lengthy sufficient to maneuver manufacturing to the US, given the time it took to safe regulatory approval and construct high-tech manufacturing vegetation. 

“We would usually think of four to five years as the timeline to move commercial-scale manufacturing to a new site,” he stated. 

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Weston stated the businesses most affected could be those who imported completed, high-priced items into the US, however he added that this was not typically what European pharma firms did. Many have at the very least the ultimate stage of producing within the US. 

Analysts at funding administration group Capstone stated that if tariffs had been carried out at this stage, it will have a big affect on US sufferers. “If 200 per cent pharmaceutical tariffs were enacted, the US will face drug shortages as branded manufacturers encounter increased costs for component imports, and generic manufacturers ultimately elect to exit the US market to protect already razor-thin margins,” they stated. 

However in addition they stated that they considered the menace as a part of Trump’s negotiating technique, both on home drug pricing coverage or because the US negotiated commerce agreements with different international locations. 

Earlier this week, Trump stated that Washington was near reaching an interim commerce cope with India, however added that the nation could be hit with a further 10 per cent tariff as a part of the Brics bloc of countries. 

Each India and the US have stated they are going to look to complete the primary tranche of a full deal by autumn. India faces as much as 26 per cent tariffs on exports to the US. 

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