🇺🇸❌🇨🇳💊 — US President Donald Trump:

"We're gonna tariff our pharmaceuticals ... we're going to be announcing very shortly a major tariff on pharmaceuticals."

📝 As of 2022, China accounted for over 6% of U.S. pharmaceutical imports regarding finished goods (like packaged medicaments, vaccines, etc.)

💊 The reliance on China is much more pronounced for Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs).

🛍 While exact figures aren’t available per se, historical estimates (from sources like the FDA and industry reports) suggest that China supplies a significant portion—potentially 40% or more—of the APIs used in U.S. generic drugs.

🇺🇸❌🌍❗️ — United States reciprocal tariffs affecting almost all countries of the world now in effect!

🇷🇺🇺🇦 “Russia has built a multi-layered defense system that is hindering Ukraine’s use of naval drones, Ukrainian Navy Commander Oleksiy Neizhpapa said in an interview with RFE/RL on April 7.

‘In the past, we could easily enter Sevastopol Bay with our drones,’ said Neizhpapa.

‘Now it’s not so simple because the enemy has established a tiered defense system. It starts with a layered detection network—with long-, medium- and short-range zones designed to pick up our unmanned systems, followed by a protocol for their destruction.’”

https://english.nv.ua/russian-war/russia-mounts-successful-defense-against-ukraine-s-naval-drones-50504292.html

🔗 Rob Lee

🇺🇸🇪🇺 The EU will have to commit to buying $350 billion of American energy to get a reprieve from sweeping tariffs, US President Donald Trump said yesterday.

https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-says-eu-must-buy-350b-of-us-energy-to-get-tariff-relief/

📱🇮🇳 Apple plans to shift more iPhone production to India to avoid U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods, threatening the $70 billion China earns annually from the tech giant.

🔗 unusual_whales

🇺🇸🔌 Trump signs executive orders to boost US coal as power demand rises

"We're bringing back an industry that was abandoned," Trump said at the White House, standing in front of about three dozen mostly male coal miners wearing hard hats.

"We're going to put the miners back to work," Trump said about a workforce that has sunk to about 40,000 from 70,000 ten years ago.

Trump, a Republican, campaigned on a promise to increase U.S. energy output and has sought to roll back energy and environmental regulations since taking office on January 20.

U.S. electricity demand is rising for the first time in two decades on growth in power-hungry data centers for artificial intelligence, electric vehicles, and cryptocurrencies.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/trump-sign-executive-orders-boost-coal-industry-sources-say-2025-04-08/

https://archive.ph/MpQ4j

🇵🇦🇨🇳🇺🇸 "Panama breaks with China and aligns with the US. (President) Mulino leaves the Silk Road, reactivates military exercises with Washington and closes ranks with Hegseth to shield the Canal, curb migration and contain the communist advance in the region."

https://fxtwitter.com/UHN_Plus/status/1909776701929795956

🇮🇱🇮🇷🇺🇸 Netanyahu Says Iran Should Blow Up Own Nuclear Sites Under US Supervision

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that if US 'indirect' talks with Iran over its nuclear program fail, then a military attack becomes 'inevitable'. He issued the warning fresh off his Monday Oval Office visit with President Trump, wherein the US leader announced for the first time that Saturday talks with the Iranians will be hosted in Oman.

Netanyahu said in the new video statement, "“We agree that Iran will not have nuclear weapons. This can be done in an agreement, but only if... they go in, blow up (Iran's) facilities, dismantle all the equipment, under American supervision." And he added: "If talks drag on, then the military option becomes inevitable."

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/netanyahu-says-iran-should-blow-own-nuclear-sites-under-us-supervision

🇺🇸💊 Trump: "We're gonna tariff our pharmaceuticals ... we're going to be announcing very shortly a major tariff on pharmaceuticals."

🔗 Insider Paper

🇨🇳🇺🇸💊 Chinese pharmaceutical firms have captured 97 percent of the U.S. market for antibiotics and more than 90 percent of the market for vitamin C

https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/coronavirus-disrupt-us-drug-supply-shortages-fda