Anonymous ID: d8d512 April 2, 2026, 11:24 a.m. No.24456597   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6971 >>7111 >>7351

Kremlin Asks US For Ceasefire At Bushehr Nuclear Plant To Get Remaining Russian Staff Out

 

Russia is seeking approval from the US and Israel for a ceasefire for the Bushehr nuclear ⁠power plant in Iran, RIA news agency reported Thursday. Airstrikes across the country have reportedly been on the uptick in the past some 48 hours.

 

"The travel routes will be communicated ‌to the relevant authorities in Israel and the United States, and we will use all channels to request strict adherence to the ceasefire ⁠during the convoy’s movement," the ⁠head of Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom, Alexei Likhachev, stated.

 

Well over 500 Russian personnel were at the site prior to the US launching Operation Epic Fury, and the Bushehr complex has been hit at least three times by airstrikes, putting the complex and area at severe risk.

 

Likhachev said that a "final ⁠wave of evacuation" of some 200 people is tentatively scheduled for next week. There's been a lot of Russian technicians and personnel there given the plant was undergoing expansion, and it's Russia which first constructed Busherh - and so has technical expertise.

 

The Kremlin has accused Washington and Israel of putting the whole region in danger, and further of harming the cause of nuclear non-proliferation globally.

 

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova days ago issued statement saying, "The drama of the situation is aggravated by the fact that countries attacking peaceful nuclear facilities in Iran are effectively undermining the NPT, the IAEA's verification mechanisms, nuclear and physical security conventions, as well as the agency's relevant regulations," according to the ministry's website.

 

"Carefully crafted and internationally agreed solutions are not taken seriously by these states and can be discarded at any moment in favor of their selfish interests and geopolitical considerations," the spokeswoman added.

 

Zakharova further communicated that atrocities in Iran must cease, and nuclear sites must be safeguarded, referencing the latest attacks in the past days on the complex in Khondab, the factory in Ardakan, and the strikes near the Bushehr nuclear power plant.

 

"The aggressors continue to raise the stakes in their war in the Middle East, ignoring all associated risks, including the danger of widespread radioactive contamination," Zakharova had said last week.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/moscow-asks-us-ceasefire-bushehr-nuclear-plant-get-remaining-russian-staff-out

Anonymous ID: d8d512 April 2, 2026, 11:26 a.m. No.24456606   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7078

Iran To Attack Logistical Hubs In Israel, Gulf After Its Tallest Bridge Destroyed

 

Earlier we reported there are signs that the US and Israel are expanding attacks on Iran civilian infrastructure, after reports emerged Thursday that fresh airstrikes hit a highway bridge connecting Tehran and Karaj, according to Fars News Agency. Several people were injured, and multiple areas of Karaj were also struck. The bridge was actually just constructed, having been inaugurated earlier this year.

 

Fars identified it as the B1 bridge, dubbed the highest bridge in the Middle East. Tehran also continues to get pummeled hard, amid reports that the prior 24 hours saw the biggest wave of Iranian missiles and cluster munitions on Tel Aviv to date. In response to the bridge attack, Iran state media says the country's armed forces are preparing a retaliatory escalation, with plans to hit Israel's core logistical backbone.

 

ehran's strategy focuses on crippling three critical arteries that sustain Israel's war machine, per state media reports reference in Newsquawk.

 

At the top of the list are key north-south rail chokepoints, among them the Yarkon Bridge - which reportedly handles the vast majority of heavy IDF military transport. There's also the Jezreel tunnel - described as the sole route for moving fuel and ammunition from Port of Haifa inland.

 

At the same time, Iran is eyeing the alternative logistics lifeline: the overland corridor running from Jebel Ali through Saudi Arabia and Jordan toward Israel.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-plans-attack-logistical-hubs-israel-gulf-after-its-tallest-bridge-destroyed

Anonymous ID: d8d512 April 2, 2026, 11:28 a.m. No.24456613   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6971 >>7111 >>7203 >>7351

Colorado Court Affirms Tina Peters’ Convictions But Reverses Sentencing Back to Trial Court, Ignores Trump’s Pardon and Supremacy Clause of Constitution

 

Another sad day for justice in America.

A division of the Colorado Court of Appeals affirms Tina Peters’ convictions but reverses her sentencing back to the trial court.

 

The overall point today is that the courts in Colorado have systematically covered up Tina Peters’ evidence that the election numbers in her county changed after an action was taken on her county’s computers labeled a “trusted build” which was mandated by the state.

 

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The Colorado courts ignored that the records had been changed, covered it up, and went after Tina Peters for sharing what she found. She was sentenced to 9 years in prison and is still in prison today.

 

In addition, today the court ruled that President Trump (or any President) does not have the power to pardon Tina Peters for her state crimes, and that the Supremacy Clause of the US Constitution does not apply to Tina Peters.

 

The ruling looks like it was written by Norm Eisen – Obama’s Ethics Czar.

 

Sentenced for Felony but Convicted of Misdeamor

During a recent hearing in front of a Colorado court, we learned that, amongst all the wrongdoing by Colorado politicians and courts who targeted Tina Peters, the court sentenced Tina to a felony for a misdemeanor she was convicted of, which led to an additional year in prison.

 

https://twitter.com/i/status/2011622845307372009

Anonymous ID: d8d512 April 2, 2026, 11:29 a.m. No.24456619   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6631 >>6971 >>7111 >>7351

Trump Admin Fraud Taskforce Begins Raids Against Healthcare Fraudsters Across Southern California – UPDATE: 8 Arrested and Charged for Over $50 MILLION in Fraud

 

https://rumble.com/embed/v75s882/?pub=4

Anonymous ID: d8d512 April 2, 2026, 11:31 a.m. No.24456630   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6971 >>7111 >>7351

Video circulating on social media allegedly shows an Iranian ballistic missile striking the central Israeli city of Petah Tikva.

 

No injuries have been reported so far, according to the Times of Israel. The IDF says it has also detected a ballistic missile launch from Yemen.

 

https://twitter.com/i/status/2039745587038343309

Anonymous ID: d8d512 April 2, 2026, 11:32 a.m. No.24456634   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6655

IRGC carried out the third phase of the 90th wave of Operation True Promise 4, targeting the computer center of the Amazon mega-company in Bahrain.

 

https://twitter.com/i/status/2039727784763760838

Anonymous ID: d8d512 April 2, 2026, 11:34 a.m. No.24456640   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6971 >>7111 >>7351

BBC embroiled in another pedophile scandal

 

Radio show host Scott Mills was reportedly investigated for “serious sexual offenses” against a teenage boy

 

The BBC has been embroiled in yet another scandal involving child sexual abuse allegations against one of its top presenters.

 

On Monday, the British state broadcaster confirmed that it fired the star of its Radio 2 breakfast show, Scott Mills, “following allegations about his personal conduct.” It did not elaborate further.

 

According to Sky News, the BBC presenter was being probed over past allegations of sexually abusing a child under the age of 16 – the UK’s age of consent.

 

The Metropolitan Police had initially launched an investigation in December 2016 relating to “allegations of serious sexual offenses against a teenage boy,” the news channel reported on Tuesday, citing law enforcement.

 

The alleged crimes reportedly took place between 1997 and 2000.

 

“As part of these inquiries, a man who was in his 40s at the time of the interview, was questioned by police under caution in July 2018,” Sky News cited the police force as saying, adding that the probe was eventually dropped due to lack of evidence.

 

Mills was among the highest-paid BBC stars, with an annual salary of more than £355,000 ($473,000), according to the corporation’s 2024-25 pay report.

 

There is a long record of crimes involving minors being committed by BBC personalities. Jimmy Savile, Stuart Hall, and Rolf Harris all abused children while working for the corporation, with the latter two serving sentences for sexual assaults involving girls as young as seven. In 2024, news presenter Huw Edwards was sentenced for possessing indecent images of children. Edwards received a six-month sentence, suspended for two years, meaning he will only go to prison if he reoffends during that period.

 

Savile allegedly abused as many as 450 victims – most of them children or young people – over the course of five decades. His alleged crimes shook the UK following his death in 2011, prompting an unprecedented investigation into how the BBC handled the issue.

 

https://www.rt.com/news/637002-bbc-presenter-mills-pedophile-scandal/

Anonymous ID: d8d512 April 2, 2026, 11:40 a.m. No.24456656   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6959 >>6962 >>6971 >>7111 >>7351

Vance Anti-Fraud Task Force Suspends 221 California Healthcare Providers Over Suspected Corruption.

 

At least 221 healthcare providers in Los Angeles, California, have had their operations suspended as of Thursday after the federal anti-fraud task force led by Vice President J.D. Vance found widespread evidence of corruption. The latest total of suspended healthcare providers marks a significant increase of over 215 percent from the 70 providers whose operations were halted last week. Federal authorities, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and SWAT teams, conducted raids early Thursday morning as part of the operation.“The Administration’s War on Fraud once again yields results as more suspensions take place and fraudsters face justice for ripping off hard-working Americans and stealing their tax dollars and social services,” a spokesman for Vice President Vance stated. Notably, the Trump administration has indicated that it expects the number of suspensions to continue to rise significantly in the coming weeks.

 

Arrests have already been made in the anti-fraud operation, which has predominantly targeted hospice care facilities and home health providers, including two individuals accused of orchestrating $7 million in fraudulent activity. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz highlighted the speed of the task force’s progress, stating, “In 10 weeks, we’re getting close to what Governor Newsom did in four years.”

 

The National Pulse reported in January that President Donald J. Trump revealed he suspects that California is “more corrupt than Minnesota.” Notably, federal prosecutors have suggested the systemic social services fraud tied to Minnesota’s Somali immigrant community could top $9 billion.

 

Meanwhile, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) has denied claims of insufficient action on fraud, asserting that his administration has blocked $125 billion in fraud and made numerous arrests. Newsom’s former chief of staff, Dana Williamson, was arrested by the FBI last November and currently faces federal charges for public corruption.

 

https://thenationalpulse.com/2026/04/02/vance-anti-fraud-task-force-suspends-221-california-healthcare-providers-over-suspected-corruption/

Anonymous ID: d8d512 April 2, 2026, 11:41 a.m. No.24456658   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6971 >>7111 >>7351

Ontario Lesbian Foster Mothers Accused of Starving and Torturing 12-Year-Old Boy Before his Death

 

Brandy Cooney and Becky Hamber face first-degree murder charges after an Indigenous boy died weighing just 48 pounds while allegedly being kept in wet suits and sedated.

 

The dark details of a first-degree murder trial in Ontario have exposed a pattern of systematic abuse that allegedly led to the death of a 12-year-old Canadian Indigenous boy.

Brandy Cooney and Becky Hamber, who were in the process of adopting the child and his younger brother, have pleaded not guilty to murder, forcible confinement, and assault with a weapon.

 

Prosecutors allege the couple subjected the children to extreme forms of punishment, including forcing them to exercise while starving and keeping them in wet suits.

 

Evidence presented during the trial indicates that the 12-year-old victim weighed only 48 pounds at the time of his death in 2022. The Crown argues that the couple starved and sedated the boy, with text messages showing them expressing worry that he was near death.

 

The prosecution argues that the couple “hated, abused and neglected” the boys and that they exaggerated or made up behavioral concerns. The defense maintains that the women were struggling to care for two children with special needs without any support.

 

Witnesses have described a "house of horrors" where the children were allegedly zip-tied and confined. The Children's Aid Society is also facing a $4 million civil lawsuit from the biological family for failing to protect the children.

 

The lawsuit, which alleges negligence, is separate from Cooney’s and Hamber’s ongoing criminal trial in Milton, Ont., where the two have pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder of the 12-year-old boy, and not guilty to confinement, assault with a weapon and failing to provide the necessaries of life to his younger brother.

 

As closing arguments wrap up, the case has ignited calls for reform in Ontario’s foster care system, particularly regarding the oversight of Indigenous children.

 

https://www.nationalfile.com/article/ontario-lesbian-foster-mothers-accused-of-starving-and-torturing-12-year-old-boy-before-his-death

Anonymous ID: d8d512 April 2, 2026, 11:47 a.m. No.24456686   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6701 >>6971 >>7111 >>7351

Iran accuses US and Israel of genocide

 

Strikes have “deliberately” targeted over 600 educational facilities, including the school in Minab where more than 160 children were killed, according to Tehran

 

Iran has accused the US and Israel of genocide over the “deliberate” targeting of schools and education facilities in strikes on the country.

 

In a post on X on Wednesday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said more than 600 schools and educational facilities across Iran have been targeted in US-Israeli attacks over the past month, including the Shajareh Tayyebeh School in Minab where more than 160 children were killed.

 

”This is not an isolated act of cruelty – it is part of a systematic and brutal pattern of illegal warfare against Iran,” he wrote. “The term ‘war crime’ falls far short of adequately describing these atrocities. Given the explicit rhetoric of hostility toward Iranians (as a nation) expressed by US/Israeli officials, these crimes amount to genocide.”

 

The US-Israeli war on Iran began with massive strikes on urban centers on February 28, including the bombing of the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school, which killed at least 175 people, more than 160 of them children. American and Israeli officials initially offered conflicting denials and explanations, with US President Donald Trump even suggesting the attack was “done by Iran.”

 

However, the Pentagon has opened a probe, and reports claim investigators have already confirmed the US carried out the strike using “outdated targeting data” that misclassified the school as part of a nearby military compound.

 

On the same day as the Minab strike, a school and sports hall in the southern Iranian city of Lamerd were also hit, killing at least 21 people. A New York Times report, citing footage analysis and weapons experts, said the attack was carried out by the US using the previously untested Precision Strike Missile (PrSM), which detonates above targets and disperses small tungsten pellets.

 

While the strike in Lamerd drew scant global attention, the atrocity in Minab has sparked condemnation. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova accused the US and Israel of “cruelty, cynicism, and dehumanization.” Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez both declared solidarity with the victims of the “massacre.” However, the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and the UN Security Council (UNSC) both failed to adopt formal resolutions condemning the atrocity.

 

The US and Israel have maintained an air offensive on Iran for over a month, killing more than 1,340 people, according to official data. Iran has retaliated with drone and missile strikes targeting Israel and US bases in the Middle East.

 

https://www.rt.com/news/637028-iran-us-israel-genocide/

Anonymous ID: d8d512 April 2, 2026, 11:50 a.m. No.24456700   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6711 >>6766 >>7272 >>7289

SHAMELESS.

 

A 30-year-old Jewish woman tried to cut the entire queue in an airport.

 

When someone confronted her, she screamed she is a Holocaust survivor.

 

https://twitter.com/i/status/2039693144636203112

Anonymous ID: d8d512 April 2, 2026, 11:50 a.m. No.24456706   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6718

The US is in absolute panic mode in Iraq. The Embassy is warning citizens to stay away from ALL American businesses and facilities. The final chilling message: do not travel to Iraq, and if you are there, leave immediately. The American empire is losing its grip.

 

https://twitter.com/i/status/2039630260900102177

Anonymous ID: d8d512 April 2, 2026, 11:51 a.m. No.24456712   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Medic Kevin McPadden rushed to the World Trade Center to help save lives on 9/11… and what he witnessed at WTC Building 7 was so shocking that this was shadowbanned by social media for years.

 

https://twitter.com/i/status/2039372269462421755

Anonymous ID: d8d512 April 2, 2026, 11:56 a.m. No.24456733   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6971 >>7111 >>7301 >>7351

Your Tax Dollars Paid for a Deep State Coup Against Trump and Democrats Are Furious It Got Out

 

Bolivia threw USAID out of the country in 2013 for running covert operations against its own government.

 

America couldn't do the same thing – because the target this time was Donald Trump.

 

And now that the receipts are public, AOC and Chuck Schumer are doing everything they can to make sure you never connect those dots.

 

The Obama CIA Holdover Who Triggered Trumps Impeachment

The 2019 impeachment hoax against Donald Trump started with a CIA analyst – an Obama White House leftover – who filed a whistleblower complaint claiming Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate the Bidens.

 

The complaint cited one report four times.

 

That report came from an organization called the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project – OCCRP – that most Americans have never heard of.

 

OCCRP would not exist without USAID.

 

Journalist Michael Shellenberger took all of it to Congress in February 2025 and put it on the record before the Senate Homeland Security Committee.

 

USAID built OCCRP from scratch – rerouting a State Department narcotics grant to create an organization it then controlled, approving senior hires and signing off on the work plan every year.

 

OCCRP's own co-founder told German television his outfit had "probably been responsible for five or six countries changing over from one government to another government – and getting prime ministers indicted or thrown out."

 

That's not journalism. That's regime change with a press badge.

 

How USAID Ran a Deep State Regime Change Operation Inside America

USAID's record abroad is well documented. In Cuba, USAID disguised a political destabilization program as an HIV outreach effort. They funneled resources into Venezuelan opposition groups.

 

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene laid out the Syria numbers directly in a House oversight hearing: USAID pumped over $15 billion into the Syrian civil war over a decade to topple Bashar al-Assad, with financial trails documented in congressional budget records.

 

Bolivia expelled USAID in 2013 for meddling in domestic politics.

 

America couldn't do the same – because the operation was running here.

 

Rep. Thomas Massie pressed Shellenberger on it directly at a House Judiciary Committee hearing in February 2025: "Isn't it borderline treason when the taxpayer – when organizations entrusted with protecting our country are now undermining our own government?"

 

In his Senate testimony, Shellenberger had already answered that question. What the CIA, USAID, and their middlemen did to interfere in U.S. politics, he wrote, is "highly illegal and even treasonous."

 

That conclusion is on the record in a United States congressional hearing room. The media buried it.

 

https://unmuzzlednews.com/your-tax-dollars-paid-for-a-deep-state-coup-against-trump-and-democrats-are-furious-it-got-out/

Anonymous ID: d8d512 April 2, 2026, 11:58 a.m. No.24456748   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Jewish Republican Randy Fine Brags About Assault on Free Speech to Stop "Antisemitism"

 

https://rumble.com/embed/v75q1dy/?pub=4

Anonymous ID: d8d512 April 2, 2026, noon No.24456759   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7396

🚨AUTOPEN CRIME RING BUSTED WIDE OPEN: FBI TASK FORCE JUST NAMED THESE NINE MOST CORRUPT DEMOCRATS WHO ILLEGALLY USED BIDEN’S ROBOT PEN HUNDREDS OF TIMES TO LINE THEIR OWN POCKETS, HAND OUT PARDONS TO CRONIES, AND SIGN FAKE EXECUTIVE ORDERS!

 

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@UnmaskTheSys

 

Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff, AOC, Bernie, Omar, Warren and the rest of this filthy swamp crew treated the autopen like their personal criminal signature machine while America got screwed!

 

Congressional Oversight Committees are now reviewing EVERY document to VOID these illegal actions and DESTROY that cursed device once and for all.

 

The Democrat deep state is COLLAPSING in real time! SHARE THIS IF YOU WANT TO SEE THESE 9 TRAITORS HELD ACCOUNTABLE!

 

https://x.com/mcafeenew/status/2039408239591522723

Anonymous ID: d8d512 April 2, 2026, 12:03 p.m. No.24456765   🗄️.is 🔗kun

1968 CIA suspected Israel stole nuclear material from the NUMEC plant—run by Dr. Shapiro, an officer in the Zionist Organization of America, the Israel lobby JFK demanded register as a foreign agent.

 

After JFK was kiIIed, they rebranded as AIPAC

 

Shapiro had Israel government ties, had 51 FBI reports made about him, worked for the ADL, and was a close colleague of Ernest David Bergmann, who went on to become the father of the Israeli atomic bomb.

 

NUMEC’s funding was arranged by David Lowenthal, a Haganah volunteer and confidant of Israeli Prime Minister Ben-Gurion.

 

Shortly before hundreds of pounds of highly enriched weapons-grade uranium went missing from the plant, NUMEC hosted visits with several Israeli espionage officials, including the head of Shin Bet, LAKAM Israel’s internal security force, and Rafael Eitan, who later ran the Jonathan Pollard spy operation against the United States.

 

In 1968, the CIA Director Richard Helms wrote a letter demanding FBI investigate the suspected Israel theft uranium.

 

CIA tasked the CIA Station Chief for Tel Aviv, John Hadden, to collect samples of flora in the environment near the Dimona nuclear reactor. Israel had no capacity to enrich uranium but highly enriched uranium was found in the samples with a U.S. military signature of 97.7%, proving it came from the U.S. nuclear program. Fuel for naval reactors was always 97.7% enriched and it was also the exact type processed by NUMEC.

 

https://x.com/i/status/2039475399030444461

Anonymous ID: d8d512 April 2, 2026, 12:05 p.m. No.24456773   🗄️.is 🔗kun

OUTRAGE in AMERICA: White House takes down video after Trump says, 'Don't send any money for daycare. We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country, we have 50 states, we're fighting wars. We have to take care of one thing, military protection. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things." WATCH

 

https://x.com/i/status/2039529227620675640

Anonymous ID: d8d512 April 2, 2026, 12:06 p.m. No.24456781   🗄️.is 🔗kun

In 1989, a courageous young woman exposed the satanic Jewish forebears of the Illuminati cult that now dominates the world.

They are Sabbatean Frankists who hate assimilated Jews as much as goyim. Respected members of the community by day, they sacrifice babies at night.

 

https://youtu.be/LoMDDQVI06E

Anonymous ID: d8d512 April 2, 2026, 1:11 p.m. No.24457074   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7082

New boss same as the old boss

 

The new Acting Attorney General 🤡

 

Todd Blanche: We’re not going to prosecute the predators in the Epstein files or release their names to the public.

 

https://x.com/Antunes1/status/2039771807109038285

Anonymous ID: d8d512 April 2, 2026, 1:15 p.m. No.24457085   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7105 >>7111 >>7122 >>7351

Massachusetts Senate President announces she will use the millionaires tax to fund additional lawyers for illegal migrants facing deportation

 

Senate President Karen Spilka is tucking $1 million into a supplemental spending bill, calling ICE arrests 'kidnapping' as she pushes to expand the program. Advocates want $15 million in the next budget.

 

Senate President Karen Spilka plans to include an additional $1 million for the Massachusetts Access to Counsel Initiative in a supplemental spending bill set for release Thursday, WBUR reported.

 

The program, created in the state's fiscal year 2026 budget, funds free legal representation for immigrants in deportation proceedings — who, unlike criminal defendants, have no right to a court-appointed attorney.

 

The additional $1 million would come from the same source as the original $5 million: the so-called millionaires tax, a 4% surtax on Massachusetts incomes above $1 million.

 

https://www.massdailynews.com/2026/04/02/massachusetts-senate-wants-spend-another-1-million-lawyers

Anonymous ID: d8d512 April 2, 2026, 2:49 p.m. No.24457435   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Trump Admin Revamps Steel, Aluminum, Copper Tariffs; Imposes 100% Duties On Patented Drugs

 

The Trump administration on Thursday announced a pair of tariff actions under national-security authority, maintaining core 50% duties on many imported steel, aluminum and copper products while overhauling the rules to exempt goods containing negligible amounts of those metals and imposing 100% tariffs on imported patented pharmaceuticals that do not meet new domestic production or pricing conditions.

 

The pharmaceutical measure targets branded drugs and active ingredients brought in by companies that have neither struck “most-favored-nation” pricing deals with the U.S. government nor committed to manufacturing in the United States. Exemptions will be honored for firms that reach such agreements or are already building or expanding U.S. plants. The policy gives large drugmakers 120 days and smaller ones 180 days to comply. Generics and certain trade-agreement partners are largely unaffected.

 

Exceptions were also granted, lowering tariffs to 15 percent - for the European Union, Switzerland, Japan, and South Korea, and a 10 percent levy for the United Kingdom.

 

Reduced rates reflect prior commitments with trading partners, according to a senior administration official.

 

The UK was awarded a lower tariff “because they were the first ones who did this deal, and they committed to raise their prices for pharmaceuticals, and they have actually done so,” the official told reporters during a background call on April 2.

 

Trump negotiated deals with 13 pharmaceutical companies over the past year, securing $400 billion in domestic manufacturing investments, the Epoch Times reports.

 

In tandem, the White House released updated fact sheets detailing changes to Section 232 tariffs on steel, aluminum and copper and their derivative products. The administration will keep 50% tariffs in place on many imported steel, aluminum and copper products. However, goods in which the total steel, aluminum or copper content is below 15% will be effectively exempted. Some other derivative goods will face a lower 25% rate if they are deemed “substantially made” of one of the metals. Even so, 50% tariffs will remain on a large number of derivative products—including imported steel pipe—and will be assessed against the full value of the product, not merely its metal content.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-administration-revamps-steel-aluminum-copper-tariffs-imposes-100-duties-patented