RULES OF ORIGIN
July 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE WORLD Trade Organisation's general council has been asked to approve global trading laws stating that "the production of tablets, capsules, granules, or other administrable forms of medicaments, such as in diffusion, dissolution, osmotic and other systems," should result in a legally defined new product being created.This would be considered made in the country of manufacture, rather than where the raw pharmaceutical ingredient was made. Said a memorandum from a special WTO rules of origin committee: "These are highly complex operations ...
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