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Government promises to keep medicine prices the same after Trump imposes 100% tariff

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Australian medicines won't get more expensive. That's the pledge from the federal government after President Donald Trump slapped a 100% tariff on some branded medicines imported to the United States - giving big companies a deadline of 120 days to make a deal. The tariffs imposed at a time of growing global economic uncertainty amid the president's continued war in the Middle East.
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