{"id":15597,"date":"2026-07-24T10:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T05:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=15597"},"modified":"2026-07-24T10:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T05:18:18","slug":"what-would-trumps-plan-to-impose-tariffs-on-generic-drugs-do-to-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=15597","title":{"rendered":"What Would Trump&#8217;s Plan to Impose Tariffs on Generic Drugs Do to Prices?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">\n<p><h2 id=\"what-countries-are-supplying-them-to-the-u-s\" class=\"scroll-mt-24 font-editorial text-black-coffee text-mobile-h2 lg:scroll-mt-28 lg:text-h2 mb-4\">What countries are supplying them to the U.S.?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Over the past decade or so, production for those drugs has increasingly moved to other countries, with India and China as the leading sources\u2014which has raised national security concerns from lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">India supplies roughly half of the generic drugs in the U.S., according to a 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aging.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/senate_aging_american_drugs_report.pdf\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\">report<\/a> from the Senate Committee on Aging. The report additionally found that about 80% of the active pharmaceutical ingredients used by Indian manufacturers are supplied by China.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">China also supplies many commonly used generic drugs\u2014a 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/prosperousamerica.org\/skyrocketing-pharmaceutical-imports-to-the-u-s-endanger-national-security\/\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\">report<\/a> from a lobbying organization called the Coalition for a Prosperous America found that China accounts for about 95% of imports of ibuprofen and 70% of imports of acetaminophen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><h2 id=\"how-would-trump-s-planned-tariffs-impact-the-generic-drug-market-in-the-u-s\" class=\"scroll-mt-24 font-editorial text-black-coffee text-mobile-h2 lg:scroll-mt-28 lg:text-h2 mb-4\">How would Trump\u2019s planned tariffs impact the generic drug market in the U.S.?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201cTariffs are most effective when they are threatened but not actually applied. Here, the administration is sending a \u2018Made in America&#8217; message to the generics industry: In other words, make it here or sell it elsewhere,\u201d Feldman told TIME. \u201cGeneric drugs account for 90% of pharmaceutical sales in the U.S, which means that the impact of the drugs would be far-reaching.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What countries are supplying them to the U.S.? Over the past decade or so, production for those drugs has increasingly moved to other countries, with India and China as the leading sources\u2014which has raised national security concerns from lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle.\u00a0 India supplies roughly half of the generic drugs in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static.time.com\/v3\/assets\/bltea6093859af6183b\/blt50b7a93ab56492f0\/6a62639d85ffee2dd527c62e\/Generic-Drugs-Tariffs.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pics-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}