Controversies surrounding pharmaceutical patents and trade rules in the WTO

Pharmaceutical patents, drug prices, and parallel imports of drugs from lower-income to higher-income nations have been at the center of some of the most contentious debates in the run-up to Cancun. This panel will analyze the positions of the various protagonists...

The panel will focus on the aspects for the Doha Agenda most closely linked to economic development. It will examine linkages that are positive, such as tariff liberalization of agriculture, and those that are negative, such as giving developing countries partial or complete exemption from liberalizing their own barriers....

Despite the general understanding in the exporting community that antidumping actions are bad for business, little has been done to publicize the negative impact of these trade remedy procedures. It is hoped that this seminar will raise public awareness of these issues, which have great economic consequences for world...