{"id":39705,"date":"2025-04-24T17:08:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/us-drug-firm-merck-says-existing-trump-tariffs-will-cost-it-200m-this-year\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:08:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:08:27","slug":"us-drug-firm-merck-says-existing-trump-tariffs-will-cost-it-200m-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/us-drug-firm-merck-says-existing-trump-tariffs-will-cost-it-200m-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"US drug firm Merck says existing Trump tariffs will cost it $200m this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Company\u2019s forecast does not account for threatened \u2018major\u2019 tariff that could also be levied on pharmaceutical imports<\/p>\n<p>The US pharmaceutical company Merck has said it expects to pay an extra $200m (\u00a3150m) in costs this year from tariffs that Donald Trump has already imposed, including his 10% tax on imports from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Merck said the projected costs also included retaliatory tariffs imposed by foreign governments on the US, particularly those related to China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/apr\/24\/us-drug-company-merck-trump-tariffs-pharmaceuticals-industry\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company\u2019s forecast does not account for threatened \u2018major\u2019 tariff that could also be levied on pharmaceutical imports The US pharmaceutical company Merck has said it expects to pay an extra $200m (\u00a3150m) in costs this year from tariffs that Donald Trump has already imposed, including his 10% tax on imports from around the world. Merck &#8230; <a title=\"US drug firm Merck says existing Trump tariffs will cost it $200m this year\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/us-drug-firm-merck-says-existing-trump-tariffs-will-cost-it-200m-this-year\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US drug firm Merck says existing Trump tariffs will cost it $200m this year\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}