Trump is full on nutz. Pharmaceutical plants are going to leave China and are pouring back into here.

[Botany]

And then something about “I know how to play the devaluation game.” and “They have to get
their plants back here.” So he is hitting China with massive tariffs and talking about all the
(pharmaceutical) plants that are closing in China and will be coming here.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-tariffs-pharmaceutical-imports-2057258

Video @ link if you can stomach it.

Donald Trump defended his recent economic moves at the dinner, saying: "Companies are pouring back into our country with plants. ... They've stopped building in Mexico, four or five plants, and they're all coming into the United States. I know what the hell I'm doing. I know what I'm doing, and you know what I'm doing, too. That's why you vote for me."

Snip

Conference Board economist Erin McLaughlin told The Financial Times: "It will take between three and 10 years in most cases to build a new manufacturing facility in the U.S. Everything takes time before you can get that picture of a congressman with a shovel in their hand."

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So if you need a drug to say keep from dying just hang on for a few years. And I thought Bondi,
Noem, and Gabbard were nucking futz.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220222758

These #s and facts are from “the internets” so I don’t know how solid they are.

There has been a 600% increase in pharmaceuticals from China since 2016 and China owns the
market for generic drugs in America too. Again I am not sure how accurate that information is.

[in2herbs]

1. I thought most of our pharmaceuticals came from India??? nt

[dickthegrouch]

2. I thought the majority were in the Philippines. /nt

[Botany]

3. I don't know the breakdown of where all our pharmaceuticals come from but if you need a drug that is

from China or the chemical precursor to make a given drug that is from China you might very well
be screwed. I have a bacterial infection and I now wonder where the antibiotic I am using or the
drug I use to clean my “pick line” is from.

Trump is like a drunken monkey with a machine gun.

[in2herbs]

4. The only RX I take is Levo and Lio and I know they are not made in the US. When my RX is due to

be renewed will there be a supply? Going without thyroid med can be serious, even fatal.

[Botany]

7. I don't know how legitimate the source of this from.

It’s the most well-known secret on Capitol Hill: China owns the American generic drug supply chain. 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.

https://prosperousamerica.org/china-owns-americas-generic-drug-supply-chain-u-s-china-commission-says/

Although they say on their home page they are bipartisan and trustworthy.

[in2herbs]

11. I did some research and China and India produce 91% of the generic drugs imported to the US. nt

[Botany]

14. Thank you for the figures

I have also found out that China makes a shit load of chemicals that are
precursors in the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals both in China and
in other nations too.

Trump is like a drunken monkey on meth with a machine gun or is being told
what to do by the likes of Putin for maximum chaos. He and his cronies along
with his supporters are bent on destroying America.

[Meowmee]

16. That is what I found also, some from Mexico too.

My insulin is made in North Carolina and Denmark apparently... but Denmark is the main location and they also manufacture in Brazil, China and France.

[leftstreet]

5. The US is way behind on automation, robotics, STEM workers

No one is going to invest in the infrastructure to make manufacturing profitable for the exalted shareholders

Manufacturing is NOT returning to the US

[Mike 03]

6. Cringey speech.

I really wish that Trump didn't sell the main attribute of the American people as being that we are the world's biggest consumers of pharmaceuticals, and everything else. In his eyes that is our principle value and greatest achievement.

It's true, but it's such a dubious and trivial distinction.

I wish he understood the value of our scientists, physicians, meteorologists, climatologists, universities, etc..

[Rebl2]

8. I doubt that

[GreenWave]

9. They should replant the plants Big Pharma robbed from Mother Earth! But then the price would tumble so far,

[Brother Buzz]

10. Building a pharmaceutical plant ain't like setting up a Christmas tree lot

The marmalade shartcannon et al. are either naive or dishonest. Well, I guess they can be both.

[tinymontgomery]

12. So, if people on advantage plans

and the plans pay for their drugs how will the plans raise prices. I'm on tricare for life and they cover drug cost for me except for shipping which they will probably raise the shipping cost to cover the raise in prices some how. But I don't know how the other programs work, any body what to give it a shot on explaining it to me?

[highplainsdem]

13. The pharmaceutical tariffs are largely aimed at Ireland, whose trade surplus with the US is mostly

from the pharmaceutical companies that moved there. Trump mentioned this weeks ago.

Guardian article on what the pharmaceutical industry brought to the Irish economy:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/09/half-the-place-would-be-blown-to-bits-the-irish-villages-under-threat-from-trumps-tariffs

Earlier article on Trump telling the Irish prime minister Ireland "took" US companies:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/12/donald-trump-ireland-micheal-martin-white-house-meeting

[Xolodno]

15. Good thing I'm only three hours from the Mexican Border.

I'll keep my empty bottles as well and "refill" them there just in case I get stopped at the border.

[H2O Man]

17. Recommended.

I think those numbers are pretty accurate.