{"id":605550,"date":"2025-12-01T15:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T15:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/605550\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T15:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T15:55:12","slug":"uk-and-us-agree-zero-tariff-deal-on-pharmaceuticals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/605550\/","title":{"rendered":"UK and US agree zero tariff deal on pharmaceuticals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Import taxes on medicines and treatments will remain at 0% for three years, the UK Government said.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration said the deal will lead to further investment by UK drugs firms in the US and create more jobs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2.82008033.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump file photo\" data-title=\"Donald Trump file photo\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Leon Neal\" data-usage-terms=\"FILE PHOTO FILE PHOTO\"  \/>The Trump administration said the deal will lead to further investment by UK drugs firms in the US and create more jobs (Leon Neal\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>It comes after warnings that US pharma firms will shut down their sites in the UK if the NHS does not pay more for drugs.<\/p>\n<p>The Government has agreed to increase the upper threshold for which it can buy new medicines by 25%.<\/p>\n<p>Science and Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said: \u201cThis vital deal will ensure UK patients get the cutting-edge medicines they need sooner, and our world-leading UK firms keep developing the treatments that can change lives.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Import taxes on medicines and treatments will remain at 0% for three years, the UK Government said. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-605550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115645128759302333","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}