Administration says tariffs aim to lower drug prices; pharmacists warn of access issues in the meantime

LEBANON The Trump administration threatened a 100% tariff on some imported prescription drugs that was scheduled to take effect Thursday, but a deal Pfizer struck with the administration could provide relief for patients, local pharmacists said.

Drug pricing has been a national issue for decades. The proposed tariffs would apply to certain brand-name medications including some eye drops and are intended to push more drug manufacturing to the United States, administration officials have said. A Lebanon pharmacy says the effect of the tariffs could take a while to feel.

Medicine can be life-saving for people all across the country. But those prices... can add up.

"Prices aren't too bad since insurance pays for most of mine, Mike Cunningham, a Lebanon resident, said. I think the folks that