Trump’s tariffs cloud the future of a medical wonder

High-end medical devices, including those made in the United States, may be especially vulnerable to tariffs because they’re built with parts from around the world. Now Siemens Healthineers, other medical device makers and their customers are reckoning with a new challenge: the impact of President Donald Trump’s global tariffs. Opposition to tariffs on medical devices hasn’t come just from Europe, but from the United States, too. Modern, conventional CT scanners primarily use solid-state crystal detectors made from a variety of materials. Overall, the U.S. accounted for more than a quarter of Siemens Healthineers’ business last year.