Brussels, 28 April 2025
Dear President von der Leyen,
The undersigned associations are urgently calling for your decisive leadership, at a pivotal and perilous moment for Europe’s continued health, wealth and security.
The United States is Europe’s most important trading partner for medical technologies.
However, recent trade tensions and the threat of tariffs now pose an existential threat, both to our industry, and to the patients, healthcare professionals and to health systems who depend on seamless, timely access to the technologies we provide.
We therefore urgently call for a direct dialogue with you to address this impending crisis.
Our industry strongly supports your proposal for “Zero-for-Zero” tariffs on trade in industrial goods between Europe and the United States, and urges you in the strongest possible terms to protect public health, by promoting an extension of the Zero-for-Zero proposal to all medical technologies, and to the essential components needed to produce them.