IPPI Cautions that Pharmaceutical Tariffs Would Harm Patients and U.S. Innovation Leadership

IPPI has submitted formal comments to the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding its Section 232 investigation of pharmaceutical imports, cautioning against imposing tariffs on medicines and their ingredients. In our submission, IPPI scholars Mark Schultz, Emily Michiko Morris, and Joshua Kresh explain that imposing such tariffs would have severe negative consequences for American patients, healthcare affordability, and U.S. pharmaceutical innovation leadership. Drawing on extensive research,...