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President Donald Trump said he'll announce his tariff plans on pharmaceuticals "sometime soon," saying he wants to bring them back to the country.

"If you look at COVID, it sort of taught us a lesson. We were getting our pharmaceuticals from other countries. We almost didn't make any. We used to make them ourselves. And we're going to want to be making a lot of them ourselves," Trump said on Monday while meeting with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Trump did seem to indicate that the U.K. or possibly the European Union might face lower tariffs, citing the fact that he feels better about allies to the U.S. producing pharmaceuticals.

When asked for clarification on Trump's comments, a White House official told ABC News that the 15% tariff for the EU included pharmaceuticals. Trump previously threatened a sizable tariff on pharmaceuticals. In early July, he said it could be around 200%.

-ABC News' Michelle Stoddart and Hannah Demissie

While meeting with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday, President Donald Trump detailed a new plan in conjunction with European allies to set up food centers in Gaza, where there would be "no fences" so people could walk in to get the food.

"They see the food from 30 [...] yards away, and they see the food. It's all there, but nobody's at it because there are fences set up that nobody can even get it. It's crazy what's going on over there," Trump said.

Trump also seemed to reverse his message from earlier on Monday, when he said he didn't "know" if there is starvation in Gaza, now saying that there is starvation in Gaza and vowing action from the U.S.

"We can save a lot of people. I mean, some of those kids are -- that's real starvation stuff. I see it, and you can't fake that. So we're going to be even more involved," Trump said.

While Trump also put focus on the efforts to try and broker a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, Starmer made it clear that attention also needs to be on the crisis unfolding in Gaza.

"Look, we need to get the hostages out. They've been held for a very long time, and we must always start from there, but also recognize the situation on the ground in Gaza is absolutely intolerable," Starmer said.

-ABC News' Michelle Stoddart, Lalee Ibssa and Hannah Demissie

When asked by reporters if he would pardon Ghislaine Maxwell -- the convicted associate of deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein -- President Donald Trump said he is "allowed to give her a pardon" but "nobody’s approached me with it."

"Nobody’s asked me about it. Right now, it would be inappropriate to talk about it," Trump said on Monday.

He said he hasn’t been "overly interested" in the Epstein files, and called the “whole thing a hoax” in regard to whether his name is in the files.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he has a "very good personal relationship" with President Donald Trump, emphasizing that the United Kingdom and the United States have "always stood together."

In terms of best interests for the two countries, Starmer added that he and Trump have a "huge amount of common ground."