Subject: Re: Pharmaceuticals
Dope1: Or one could look at it as an incentive to onshore production.
Umm, McFly, it would take a minimum of five to ten years to build new facilities and even longer to fully re-shore the supply chain.
Plus a gigantic boatload of money.
Your genius negotiator just made life-saving medicines 15% more expensive.
Before this trade "deal," pharmaceuticals had been exempt from tariffs, and the US imports $175B/yr of them from the EU.
Somehow, this doesn't look like it's going to bring down the price of drugs by 1,500% as Mad King Donald Thee Pedophile promised.