PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY COULD BE WIN REAL GLOBAL FREE TRADE AS WTO’S DOHA ROUND DRAWS TO A CLOSE
February 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) seven-year-old Doha Development Round maybe drawing towards a close, the pharmaceutical industry might start to consider that a final deal could lead to the elimination of most import duties on drugs and medicines, traded worldwide.
That is the ambition of a two special sectoral negotiations within the round's market access for non-agricultural products (or NAMA) talks - one for 'open access to enhanced healthcare (pharmaceuticals and medical devices)' and the other for 'chemical products', which could ...
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