Trump-Aligned Think Tank Pushes Tariffs As Tool to Lower U.S. Drug Prices

By Maaisha Osman / April 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM

A conservative think tank allied with President Donald Trump, the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), is calling on U.S. trade officials to take aim at foreign drug pricing policies that it says force Americans to shoulder the global burden of pharmaceutical innovation -- by using tariffs to force other countries to abandon what it calls “freeloading” practices.


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