Trump warns of steep tariffs on pharmaceuticals

特朗普警告称将对药品征收高额关税

World Business Report

2025-08-06

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President Trump signals pharmaceuticals could be next on his tariffs list. But what does that mean for the makers and distributors of non-branded medicines? We’ll be speaking to an association representing them. Love it or loathe it, AI is creeping into everyday life. But how much of a threat does AI pose to emerging economies? The president of the World Bank Group shares his thoughts. And in electric car sales in Europe it’s bad news for Tesla, but much brighter news for BYD. We’ll look at the reasons for the difference in performance for the rival carmakers.
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  • Hello and welcome to World Business Report from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Rahul Tandon.

  • Plenty coming up on this edition.

  • We're going to tell you about a very large discovery by the oil giant BP in Brazil,

  • one of the largest they've had in 25 years.

  • What will it mean for the flagging energy company?

  • And we'll talk about a new trend in India attending fake weddings.

  • We are embracing the Indian tradition, right?

  • Wearing our Indian attire is a bit unique than a regular pub night

  • because everyone is running a pub night,

  • but this is quite unique.

  • Plenty more on that to come.

  • It was one of those days where there were a couple of big stories.

  • We could have started by looking at those increasing trade tensions between the US and India,

  • and we will come to that story in about five or six minutes' time.

  • But we've talked a lot about tariffs on the programme, so we thought we'd start with this one.

  • today.

  • He's already the richest person in the world, but Elon Musk is in line for another $29 billion,

  • thanks to the board of Tesla, which wants to keep him focused on running the electric car firm.

  • The award, which comes after a court blocked an earlier pay package with almost double that,