Recent U.S. free trade agreements have included language regulating the way in which member countries manage their pharmaceutical drug coverage and reimbursement programs. The U.S.-Australia agreement was the first to such provisions, followed by the U.S.-Korea agreement which expanded upon…
The U.S. has recently begun to include in free trade agreements provisions regarding government health care programs which reimburse entities for prescription drugs. The U.S.-Australia free trade agreement was the first to include such provisions, followed by the U.S.-Korea Free…
The following blog was written by Geraldine Jaurez, and posted to TechDirt: Last Tuesday, the Second Standing Commission of the Mexican Congress unanimously approved a resolution promoted by Senator Francisco Castellon P(artido de la Revolución Democrática, PRD) exhorting the Executive…
Disagreements over intellectual property and agricultural provisions (as well as concerns over the unfolding EU debt crisis) have led to an impasse in trade negotiations between the EU and the Latin American trade bloc Mercosur. Latin American countries object to…
Vietnam hosted the seventh round of Trans Pacific Partnership Negotiations from June 20-24 in Ho Chi Min City. The US Trade Representative issued a press release announcing “step-by-step progress,” and said that negotiators “reviewed new proposals that the United States…
Recent free trade agreements with Korea and Australia have included provisions regulating pharmaceutical reimbursement programs operated at the “central level of government” of member countries. Currently, the U.S. is in negotiations to complete the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement, which…
AIDS Groups outraged as US declares war on generic AIDS medicines through Free Trade Agreement Negotiations with Vietnam and Malaysia 23 June 2011, Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh – The Asia Pacific Network of Positive People (APN+) is expressing outrage…
Geraldine Juarez in Mexico, geraldine@hipertextual.com, reports that the Mexican Congress has approved a resolution asking the president to not sign ACTA. She reports that, in a public hearing after the voting with citizens, senators from the presidential party PAN assured…
As the latest round of negotiations for the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement starts this week in Vietnam, some member countries are publicly defending their prescription drug reimbursement programs. If the TPP agreement contains language similar to the…
The U.S. has recently begun to include in free trade agreements provisions regarding government health care programs which reimburse entities for prescription drugs. The U.S.-Australia free trade agreement was the first to include such provisions, followed by the U.S.-Korea Free…
Two recent news stories on Radio New Zealand covered the potential for a pharmaceutical chapter in the TPP.
Sources knowledgeable about the U.S. negotiating position in the TPP confirm that the U.S. has now drafted a pharmaceutical chapter for the TPP negotiations. The chapter is modeled on the Korea-US (KORUS) FTA’s pharmaceutical chapter, as expected, but goes beyond…