{"id":183731,"date":"2025-09-26T20:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T20:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/183731\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T20:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T20:45:09","slug":"how-pharmaceutical-tariffs-will-affect-us-health-care-costs-american-enterprise-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/183731\/","title":{"rendered":"How Pharmaceutical Tariffs Will Affect US Health Care Costs | American Enterprise Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/New-Econ-Persp-900x150.png\" alt=\"AEI Economic Perspectives papers\" class=\"wp-image-973835\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Abstract<\/p>\n<p>Tariffs on pharmaceuticals are under consideration following a Section 232 investigation into imports of medicines and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). With US imports in 2024 totaling $210.8 billion in finished medicines and $36.2 billion in APIs, the threat of tariffs puts nearly $250 billion in trade at risk. Tariffs could raise list or net prices for pharmaceuticals, drive up insurance premiums, increase the risk of drug shortages, elevate costs for US producers using imported APIs, and reduce the competitiveness of US exports of finished drugs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/How-Pharmaceutical-Tariffs-Will-Affect-US-Health-Care-Costs.pdf?x85095\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/pdf-icon.png\" alt=\"pdf icon\" class=\"wp-image-845778\" style=\"object-fit:cover;width:75px;height:75px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/How-Pharmaceutical-Tariffs-Will-Affect-US-Health-Care-Costs.pdf?x85095\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">How Pharmaceutical Tariffs Will Affect US Health Care Costs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Abstract Tariffs on pharmaceuticals are under consideration following a Section 232 investigation into imports of medicines and active&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-183731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}