MedTech in Flux: Navigating Global Disruption

WASHINGTON—AdvaMed, the Medtech Association, the world’s largest organization representing medtech innovators, and the Association of British HealthTech Industries (ABHI), the leading trade association for medical technology companies in the United Kingdom, are calling for reciprocal “zero for zero” tariffs between the two countries and greater regulatory convergence, noting the prominence of medtech in both the U.S. and U.K. health care systems and economies and the critical need to avoid disruptions in patient care that tariffs could cause in both countries.

AdvaMed President and CEO Scott Whitaker is leading the call for a reciprocal “zero-for-zero” tariff agreement on medtech, urging the U.S. and its trading partners to eliminate tariffs on essential, lifesaving medtech products. 

WASHINGTON – Scott Whitaker, president and CEO of AdvaMed, the Medtech Association, today called for a reciprocal “zero for zero” model with respect to tariffs among U.S. trading partners for medical technologies. In an interview with Joe Mullings of the Mullings Group, Whitaker stated that tariff-free trade is critical to maintaining the highly competitive nature of the medtech industry, which keeps prices down and serves patients nationwide and globally with a robust breadth and depth of lifesaving medtech.

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WASHINGTON – Today AdvaMed, the Medtech Association, released the following statement from President and CEO Scott Whitaker: