pharmaceutical

The first agreement is with Pfizer, one of the biggest and best-known American pharmaceutical companies.

All the major pharmaceutical companies had been told they needed to come up with a plan to lower prices and manufacture in the U.S., or face consequences including tariffs.

Kennedy has previously criticized some medical societies for receiving donations from pharmaceutical companies.

“BlinkRx is one of many companies in the marketplace that provide these kinds of services to manufacturers,” said Adam J. Fein, the president of Drug Channels Institute, a group that studies the pharmaceutical industry.

The administration has been weighing duties on a range of pharmaceutical products and ingredients, using a tariff investigation under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, which covers threats to national security.