LAMY HIGHLIGHTS HOPE OF MEDICINES NO-TARIFF MOVE DURING DOHA SUSPENSION
October 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) director general Pascal Lamy has welcomed a proposal from the United States and Switzerland to expand the group of countries charging no import duties on medicine imports. Speaking to the Assembly of the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations, Lamy regretted the summer suspension of the WTO Doha round, but claimed WTO initiatives on generic medicines and this zero-duty initiative was having an effect. Expanding the world's medicine free trade bloc "can reduce the cost of ...
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