Australia worried by Trump threat to raise U.S. pharma tariffs to 250%

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/australia-worried-by-trump-threat-raise-us-pharma-tariffs-250-2025-08-07/

39 comments

  2. Not all that worried unless you are the CEO of a Pharma company.

    Release the Epstein files unredacted.

  3. Apparently It’s discriminatory to make medications affordable for everyone.

    It would be political suicide for any party in Australia to even suggest modifying the PBS.

  4. So he’s going to increase the cost of various medicines to American’s by 250% at the behest of big pharma.

    Good work, dickhead. There is no way we will give up the PBS to appease your corpo, pedo mates.

  6. Eat shit trump.

    We’re not changing our policy because your pharmaceutical companies are hanging a whinge about our drug prices.

    It’ll be fucking career suicide for any party here to even fucking suggest it.

    Fuck outta here ya useless shit stain.

  7. Not really, he can tax his own citizens as much as he wants. Why don’t they speed run this to the inevitable end and make the tariffs 1,000,000% because no one outside of America is paying it.

    We (for the most part) are not confused by what a Tariff is.

  8. We will die for our Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

    They were once close allies but any country that votes in such a clown cannot be an ally any longer. I’m glad we are just laying quiet, forming new trade relationships around these fascist losers.

  10. Take your shitenomics and stick it up your arse ya ochre-faced pedo rapist

  11. I think Australia won’t stress too much if Dump raises tariffs by xxx% (who knows what the final figure will be – Dump will change his mind) – because it’s the American people who are the one’s paying.

    But if Dump demands that Aussies pay more . . . you need to consider how much can a Koala bear. At the moment the USA maintains a trade surplus with Australia, & a large part of that surplus is military equipment – I reckon countries like UK, France, Germany & Japan are going to be very interested in stepping into that role. There will be bargains available.

  12. I am just buying a few bottles of Champagne. Because I will party so hard when this POS retires.

  13. Every day I believe Johnny Silverhand was right just a little more.

  14. Knowing he makes up those numbers on the spot instead of actually calculating all factors makes this kind of aggressive (irrational) threating so much worse. He just doesnt care about anyone

  16. every day it’s TrumpTariffsTrumpTarrifs blah blah – guy had one idea 40 years ago and that’s it

  17. Australia should threaten to invalidate all American pharmaceutical patents and start making the drugs themselves.

    Edit: Oh, wait. This is about the US tariffing Australian drug imports. No matter. Invalidate the patents anyway and sell the drugs real cheap to other countries.

  18. Isn’t Australia an ally of America, Quad , AUKUS Indo Pacific. Hosts biggest CIA base Pine Gap .then why Bully its own ally ?

  19. No, Australia is not worried. Some pharmaceutical exporters might be concerned, but that’s about it. Neither side of politics here is going to touch the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, which is what Trump wants.

    The whole thing is stupid, the Australian government buys drugs from US pharmaceutical companies at a price that the US pharmaceutical agrees to. If US pharma is so fucking upset about that price, don’t agree to it. Literally nobody wins in this except big US pharma

  20. Choices seem to be:

    1. Fold. Accept America’s blackmail and build Australian Pharma in the USA, sell internally at a cheaper rate and to avoid tariffs.

    2. Don’t fold. Americans can’t afford certain meds due to tariff cost, Doctors won’t even prescribe it, and so use lesser alternatives with more side affects, sometimes deadly. Australia has to find buyers elsewhere or risk losing billions in lost revenue.

    Australia has two bad options that will cost them billions no matter what they choose. America has one good and one terrible option.

  21. Remember a royal kid in the class bullying everyone and feeling like an emperor of the class.

    Fighting with everyone in his way.

  22. Can’t we just all agree to put 200% tarif on the usa? Just stop dealing with temper tantrum usa

  23. Watch how the public will push for Pine Gap to be closed down if he messes with the PBS.

  24. This guy wants to fuck with Canada, Brazil, India, Japan and now Australia?!! Us who went through every bloody war you guys dragged us into despite our self-interests?!! Bloody ridiculous. Trump truly is deranged and senile.

  25. Trump and Americans in general need to understand that the PBS is the hill almost all Australians will die on.

    Going after it truely is a dumb idea and will invoke the nuclear option from the Australian people.

  27. Australia. Plan on a future without counting on the US. It is not a trustworthy country, you cannot count on a single thing this pedo says.

  28. I truly believe he’s a moron, and has no clue what he’s doing, but I also believe he’s trying to destroy America cause he knows he’ll be dead soon and hates the idea that there’s a world without him.

  30. We would rather be allies with Indonesia than listen to this fat orange faced fuck.

  31. Hey Americans. We pay $30AUD for an epipen or $7AUD if you are on social security. I take 3 different psychiatric meds a day and it cost me about $20 per month. My parents take so many meds, they get free meds for the rest of the year. That’s right: if you take lots of medications, you start getting them for free at about this point in the year – there’s a payment threshold, once you get to that point, it becomes free.

    You need to demand WAY better of your government.

  32. Other countries should note that all they have to do to stop this is to cease all trade and negotiations with the US for three months. It’ll suck for everyone, but unless you start calling the bully’s bluff, he’s just going to keep going back to the tariff well.

  34. China is near Australia and is more than happy to buy stuff instead of the US. This tariff move would force that to happen, which is spectacularly dumb of Trump: forcing the US’s best allies into the arms of its main competitor.

    And while they’re at it, may as well change that nuclear submarine order from the US to France.

  35. Hopefully the government knows just how bad they’d get it in the neck if they allowed anyone to fuck with the PBS. And also that they remember that it was the example of what that orange skidmark is doing to the USA that guaranteed the Labor party’s unprecedented victory.

  36. Trying to run the country like a business, quite hilarious. Watch the United States fall from grace when countries start looking elsewhere to do their trade business.

  37. worry austrailia… worry. but nobody more worried then ppl that are on them that just lost medicare…
    and for the ones that still have it or private insurance… wow costs up for “insurance” too. who pays that up cost?

    this isn’t the way *even if* believing in the principles.

    *get loud.*

  38. Smart leaders realize that this Tariff fiasco will hurt Americans severely. This will lead to a blue wave and a few more impeachment hearings on top of the fact that the Tariffs may and should be declared unconstitutional.

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