Trump’s 15% tariff on medicines will harm patients, say EU drugmakers | Pharmaceuticals industry

The European Pharmaceutical Industry condemned the US movement to put 15% tariffs from the EU drugs from the EU, and called the taxes a “blunt vehicle gerçek that will harm patients on both sides of the Atlantic.

They answered a White House Text of the agreement This will be valid for drugs if the 15% basic rate in imports from the EU is applied by the US side as expected.

“As part of President Trump’s balanced trade strategy, the US will pay a 15%tariff ratio to the US, including automobile and automobile parts, drugs and semiconductors.” He said.

The European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries (EFPIA) said: “Tariffs on drugs will disrupt the supply chains and affect investments in research and development, and ultimately damage access to the drugs on both sides of the Atlantic.”

The commercial organization represents drug companies throughout the block, including US multinational companies, such as Bayer in Germany, Novo Nordisk in Denmark and Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson & Johnson & Johnson.

The USA is a violation of 1995 to act to implement import tasks to Pharma. World Trade Organization Agreement The drugs and active ingredients in them are rated as zero tariffs.

An EU trade spokesman said that imports from the United States to the EU will remain non -task.

Washington’s text also confirmed that the EU will not bring a technology tax. An EU spokesman said that this is not the case and that the block maintains the “sovereign legislative right” in the digital field.

Trump reported that the US pharmaceutical companies that produce drugs for US patients have made profits in war and sales abroad.

In March, Ireland has repeatedly targeted its historical low -productive policies, which helped multinational companies, including Pfizer, Boston Scientific and Eli Lilly, to the shores of the country and claimed that the country has plundered US affairs.

On Monday, Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin said that tariffs are not ideal in general, but a trade war would be “destructive”.

EFPIA said that “how to finance global pharmaceutical innovation is financed ,, but to get it, it was more effective ways to help global progress in patient care and economic growth”.

The White House text of the agreement, EU officials on Monday Farma exports to the United States, the United States of the United States until the completion of the investigation of pharmaceuticals and semiconductors Farma exports to the US said.

Metin also raises questions about the standards of US foods exported to the EU. The EU said that the US refers to non -tariff obstacles affecting trade in food and agriculture products, including the requirement and necessity and requirements for sanitary certificates for pork and dairy products.

It is known that the European Commission is committed to facilitating the veterinary certification processes who applied to British food export after Brexit to the UK. This may include a decrease in the documents required to export the products.