唐纳德·特朗普总统表示,他将“很快”宣布他的医药关税计划,并表示他希望将这些计划带回国内。
“如果你看看冠状病毒肺炎,它多少给了我们一个教训。我们从其他国家获得药品。我们几乎什么都没做。我们以前自己做的。特朗普周一在会见英国首相凯尔·斯塔默(Keir Starmer)时表示:“我们希望自己制造很多这样的东西。”。
特朗普似乎表明,英国或欧盟可能会面临更低的关税,理由是他对美国生产药品的盟友感觉更好。
当被要求澄清特朗普的评论时,一名白宫官员告诉美国广播公司新闻,欧盟15%的关税包括药品。特朗普此前威胁要对药品征收相当大的关税。7月初,他说可能是200%左右。
Trump teases announcement for tariff plans on pharmaceuticals
President Donald Trump said he'll announce his tariff plans on pharmaceuticals "sometime soon," saying he wants to bring them back to the country.
"If you look at COVID, it sort of taught us a lesson. We were getting our pharmaceuticals from other countries. We almost didn't make any. We used to make them ourselves. And we're going to want to be making a lot of them ourselves," Trump said on Monday while meeting with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Trump did seem to indicate that the U.K. or possibly the European Union might face lower tariffs, citing the fact that he feels better about allies to the U.S. producing pharmaceuticals.
When asked for clarification on Trump's comments, a White House official told ABC News that the 15% tariff for the EU included pharmaceuticals. Trump previously threatened a sizable tariff on pharmaceuticals. In early July, he said it could be around 200%.