China tariff on USA at 10%

[Guno צְבִי]

China has become a major supplier of pharmaceutical imports to the US, with a significant increase in imports between 2020 and 2022. The US imported billions of dollars worth of pharmaceuticals from China, including packaged medicaments, vaccines, blood, organic cultures, bandages, and organs.

Basic thyroid or blood pressure medications might finally be put into pill form in an Indian lab and sold under an Indian brand like Cipla. But the organic compounds, or key starting materials, mostly come from China. China is also a key supplier of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API). As a result, the U.S. generic drug market is a wholly owned subsidiary of Chinese and Indian drug makers.

 

[Hawkeye10]

China has become a major supplier of pharmaceutical imports to the US, with a significant increase in imports between 2020 and 2022. The US imported billions of dollars worth of pharmaceuticals from China, including packaged medicaments, vaccines, blood, organic cultures, bandages, and organs.

Basic thyroid or blood pressure medications might finally be put into pill form in an Indian lab and sold under an Indian brand like Cipla. But the organic compounds, or key starting materials, mostly come from China. China is also a key supplier of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API). As a result, the U.S. generic drug market is a wholly owned subsidiary of Chinese and Indian drug makers.

There is also the matter of so called American made drugs that rely on inputs that come from China and/or India....making our drug supply 100% American would take a shit ton of money and a lot of years.

Also I have been told that a lot of what comes out of India, to include precursors, rely on inputs that come from China, as you say.