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Ryan Hogg

Europe’s pharma titans confront von der Leyen as Trump plans ’major’ tariffs

LArs Freurgaard Jorgensen and Ursula von der Leyen pictured among Danish business leaders in 2024. (Credit: Lars Fruergaard Jorgensen/LinkedIn)

Europe’s biggest pharmaceutical companies confronted European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen yesterday as Donald Trump promised the imminent arrival of tariffs on U.S. drug imports.

Trump told guests at a National Republican Congressional Committee dinner on Tuesday that the White House would announce a “major tariff” on pharmaceutical imports “very shortly,” to applause from the partisan crowd.

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