{"id":88431,"date":"2025-09-27T07:58:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T07:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/88431\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T07:58:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T07:58:18","slug":"britain-says-pushing-for-better-outcome-on-us-pharma-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/88431\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain says pushing for better outcome on US pharma tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain on Friday said it was pressing the United States on pharmaceutical tariffs<\/a> in hope of a beneficial outcome, after President Donald Trump<\/a> said a new 100% tariff would apply to firms unless they build a manufacturing presence in the country.<\/p>\n

Trump said the tariffs would apply to any branded or patented pharmaceutical product from October 1 unless the company had already broken ground on building a manufacturing plant in the United States. He did not mention whether they would stack on top of existing national tariffs.<\/p>\n

“We know this will be concerning for industry, which is why we’ve been actively engaging with the U.S. and will continue to do so over the coming days,” a British government spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

“Sectors such as pharmaceuticals are critical to our economy … so we will continue to press the U.S. for outcomes that reflect the strength of our relationship and deliver real benefits for UK industry.”<\/p>\n

Britain in May secured the first tariff deal with Trump, although it has only been partially implemented.<\/p>\n

Under the agreement, the countries said they intended to negotiate “significantly preferential treatment outcomes on pharmaceuticals”. Britain also pledged it would try to improve the “overall environment” for pharma firms.<\/p>\n

Trump has pressured Europe to pay more for U.S. drugs, and major pharma companies have halted investments in Britain, citing a difficult operating environment.<\/p>\n

Britain’s science minister Patrick Vallance has acknowledged that the country’s National Health Service needs to reverse a trend of declining spending on medicines.<\/p>\n

Major British drugmakers like AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline have manufacturing facilities in the United States and have announced further investments.<\/p>\n

(Reporting by Alistair Smout; editing by William James, Aidan Lewis)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (Reuters) -Britain on Friday said it was pressing the United States on pharmaceutical tariffs in hope of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[3248,79,179,18,19,17,57975,57974,10595,384],"class_list":{"0":"post-88431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-pharma-firms","15":"tag-pharmaceutical-product","16":"tag-president-donald-trump","17":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}