Trump to impose pharma tariffs by August 1, semiconductors likely next
Donald Trump
said that he was likely to impose tariffs on pharmaceuticals as soon as the end of the month and that levies on
semiconductors
could come soon as well, suggesting that those import taxes could hit alongside broad "reciprocal" rates set for implementation on Aug. 1.
"Probably at the end of the month, and we're going to start off with a low tariff and give the pharmaceutical companies a year or so to build, and then we're going to make it a very high tariff," Trump told reporters Tuesday as he returned to Washington after attending an artificial intelligence summit in Pittsburgh.
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At a Cabinet meeting earlier this month, Trump said he planned to impose a 50% tariff on copper in the coming weeks, and that he expected pharmaceutical tariffs to grow as high as 200% after giving companies a year to bring manufacturing back to the US. Trump has already announced investigations under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 on drugs, arguing a flood of foreign imports was threatening national security.
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