Trump slaps tariffs on drugs, trucks, furniture
INTERNATIONAL – USA
27 SEPTEMBER 2025
- U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled a new round of punishing tariffs on a broad range of imported goods in the U.S., including 100% duties on branded drugs and 25% tariffs on heavy-duty trucks.
- The announcements, made on Truth Social, did not include details about whether the new levies would apply on top of national tariffs or whether economies with trade deals such as the UK, EU and Japan would be exempted.
- Mr. Trump also said he would start charging a 50% tariff on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities and a 30% tariff on upholstered furniture, with all the new duties to take effect from October 1.
- “The reason for this is the large scale “FLOODING” of these products into the U.S. by other outside Countries,” Mr. Trump said on Truth Social.
- The new 100% tariff on any branded pharmaceutical product will apply to all imports unless the company has already broken ground on building a manufacturing plant in the U.S., Mr. Trump said.
- The Trump administration has opened a dozen probes into the national security ramifications of imports of wind turbines, airplanes, semiconductors, polysilicon, copper, timber, and lumber, and critical minerals to form the basis of new tariffs.
- Mr. Trump has made the levies a key foreign policy tool, using them to renegotiate trade deals, extract concessions and exert political pressure on other countries.
