New trade agreement between Mexico, the US and Canada

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The new trade agreement between Mexico, the US and Canada, now called the T-MEC entered into force on 1 July 2020. 

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When Mexico joined T-MEC with the US and Canada, it signed a chapter on medicines and health supplies in the agreement. Mexico agreed to unify criteria and conducts among the three bodies that regulate the authorization, use and marketing of drugs.

The purpose was to ensure the availability of patented and generic drugs as well as homogenize the market. With this, the population could be better served from a more unified criterion.

To avoid that the Mexican pharmaceutical industry from being dominated by Asian and Indian regional investors, it will not be surprising that the harmonization of policies and procedures of the Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (Comisión Federal para la Protección contra Riesgos Sanitarios, COFEPRIS), the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) is accelerated within the framework of T-MEC.

The entry into force of the T-MEC trade agreement implied challenges and opportunities that must be addressed in a collaborative way among the multiplicity of participants in this regional market, in order to exploit the potential of the agreement as an instrument of regional economic recovery, and in the knowledge that its first review awaits us in 2026.

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