Big pharma fears best-selling drugs in crosshairs of US-EU tariff spat

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2. Money

If an item coming into the the U.S. costs the importer $1.00 and the importer sells it to a distributor for $1.05.
A 20% tariff makes the cost to the importer $1.20. The 5% markup becomes $1.26. An easy 6 cents additional profit to forward to the distributor for his markup, to the benefit manager for the markup and to the pharmacy for its markup..

The nice thing about tariffs is that it eliminates someone undercutting the price as everyone has to pay it and no one has to accept the blame for the pice being higher.