[Ip-health] Yahoo News (India)- Govt may give sops to drug exports avoiding Europe

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Govt may give sops to drug exports avoiding Europe

Wed, Nov 25 04:33 PM

New Delhi, Nov 25 (PTI) The Centre may give sops to drug exporters for
shipments to Africa and Latin America through a route that would avoid
passing through Europe, while it prepares to drag the EU to the World
Trade Organisation over seizures of consignments of Indian pharma
companies. The European Union has been seizing Indian generic drugs en
route Latin America and Africa citing patent violations.

The Department of Pharmaceuticals has submitted a freight subsidy scheme
for exporters to the Commerce Ministry so that they could take alternate
routes and avoid transit through Europe, which is a shorter route with
better connectivity. "(The) Ministry of Commerce has agreed with the
(subsidy) scheme.

I think they will introduce it," Department of Pharmaceuticals Secretary
Ashok Kumar told PTI on the sidelines of a FICCI function. Kumar also
said that the government would be taking up the issue of Indian generics
drugs seizure by the EU at the World Trade Organisation.

"We are going to the WTO," Kumar said when asked what the government was
doing to help exporters against drugs seizure. Commenting on the
Centre''s move, Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance Secretary General D G
Shah said: "India should assert the right to free trade and right to
passage as per the WTO free trade norms.

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