Back in August I started an analysis of how biosimilars will be impacted in the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). To refresh, in a follow up on a 2016 campaign promise to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Administration has been engaging Mexico and Canada in an effort to create and ratify the USMCA.
Read MoreA new pilot program that allows states to import from Canada and allow manufacturers to voluntarily import has been announced via a draft rule through HHS and the FDA. The program would give states and nonfederal government entities the ability to import from Canada by applying to the FDA. Higher priced drugs such as biologics are not included in the draft rule.
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