Within the pharmaceutical industry, the biosimilars business is growing and consolidating both internationally and locally. It is within this framework that MERCOSUR announced the new tariff to be implemented.
MERCOSUR is an open and dynamic process. Since its creation, its main objective has been to promote a common space that generates business and investment opportunities through the competitive integration of national economies into the international market. MERCOSUR is the Customs Union between the States Parties to the Southern Common Market. Its full members are Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Venezuela is a full member but has been suspended since 1 December 2016. Associate member countries are Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru and Suriname.
On 5 May 2021, by means of the Decree 297, the Argentinian Government incorporated a series of bio-based products to the Common External Tariff (Arancel Externo Común, A.E.C) list. The aim is to establish differential rates of Extra-zone Import Duties (Derechos de Importación Extrazona, DIE).
According to Pharmabiz, the Indian pharmaceutical industry portal, which conducted a special investigation to identify which laboratories are affected, it emerged that there are six active substances of innovator biological products or biosimilars which will be charged with a tariff of 14% as from May 2021, see Table 1. So, it will mainly be the laboratories with Latin equity that have long been inclined to invest in the biosimilars business that will be mostly favoured.
| Table 1: Biologicals and biosimilars with 14% tariffª compared to biosimilars produced in Argentina
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Biological/Biosimilar with 14% tariff
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Biosimilar produced in Argentina
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| Active substance
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Product Name
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Company, Country
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Product Name
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Laboratory
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| bevacizumab
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Avastin
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Roche, Switzerland
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Bevax
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Elea
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| Lumiere
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Elea
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| Zutrab
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Richmond
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| etanercept
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Enbrel
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Pfizer, Ireland
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Enerceptan
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Amega
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| Erelzi*
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Sandoz, Austria
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| interferon beta 1a
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Rebif NF
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Merck, Italy
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Megavex Blastoferon
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Amega
Biosidus
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| Avonex Pen
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Biogen, Denmark
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| rituximab
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MabThera
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Roche, Switzerland
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Novex
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Elea
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| Rixathon*
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Sandoz, Slovenia
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| somatropine
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Norditropin Flexpro
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Novo Nordisk, Denmark
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HHT Pen
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Biosidus
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| Hutrope
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Eli Lilly, France
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| Zomacton*
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Ferring, Germany
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| Saizen
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Merck, Italy
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| Omitrope
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Sandoz/Novartis, Switzerland
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| Genotropin
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Pfizer, Belgium/ Germany/Sweden
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| teriparatide
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Forteo
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Eli Lilly, France
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Osteofortil
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Biosidus
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ªAs from May 2021.
*Biosimilar.
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