{"id":13750,"date":"2026-02-20T06:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/13750\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T06:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:18:14","slug":"trump-meets-novartis-ceo-says-drugmaker-building-11-us-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/13750\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump meets Novartis CEO, says drugmaker building 11 US plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ROME, Georgia, Feb 19 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. President Donald Trump said he met Vas Narasimhan, \u200cthe chief executive officer of Swiss \u200cdrugmaker Novartis, at the White House on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Trump, addressing \u200bworkers at a steel plant in Rome, Georgia on Thursday, said Narasimhan told him during the meeting that his company was building 11 \u200cU.S. plants as \u2060a result of the president&#8217;s tariff policies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We appreciate the opportunity to update \u2060the U.S. government on our progress, including recent groundbreakings for manufacturing and research facilities in \u200bNorth Carolina \u200band California and plans \u200bto expand our \u200cradioligand therapy manufacturing network with a new site in Florida,&#8221; a spokesperson for Novartis told Reuters in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The statement did not add any details on the number of facilities \u200cplanned in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Last \u200byear, the Swiss drugmaker said \u200bit planned \u200bto spend $23 billion to build and \u200cexpand 10 facilities in the \u200bU.S. after \u200bthe Trump administration threatened to impose drug import duties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt and Sneha \u200bSK, Additional \u200creporting by Abu Sultan in Bengaluru; Writing \u200bby Andrea Shalal, Editing by Bhargav \u200bAcharya and Kate Mayberry)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROME, Georgia, Feb 19 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. President Donald Trump said he met Vas Narasimhan, \u200cthe chief executive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[18,10023,10021,206,10022,9827,2567],"class_list":{"0":"post-13750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-novartis","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-georgia","10":"tag-narasimhan","11":"tag-novartis","12":"tag-rome","13":"tag-vas-narasimhan","14":"tag-white-house"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}