Pharmaceutical supply chains get tangled in war with Iran

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1. War Resistance

Countries are probably going to start rethinking manufacturing and warehousing to be more resilient to global disruptions. JIT deliveries of anything presume few disruptions, and if something takes 3 months to get to you... Well, when you pause it, it can also take 3 months to begin arriving again, also assuming no other disrupted industries are competing for the same dock/ports to offload cargo. It also presumes general peace and safe passage everywhere on the seas, which is abnormal and relatively rare historically.

Short term hardships aside, global trade will fundamentally change in ways way beyond competing tariffs and boycotts.