USTR holds talks with Pfizer, Astrazeneca over increased vaccine production, IP rights waiver
The Hindu
The United States so far has remained non-committal on the WTO move of India and South Africa over this.
United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai has held a virtual meeting with AstraZeneca and Pfizer leadership to discuss increasing vaccine production and a proposed waiver to certain provisions of the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) for the COVID-19 pandemic. The United States so far has remained non-committal on the WTO move of India and South Africa over this. The White House on Monday told reporters that no decision has been made yet, even as top American lawmakers urged the Biden Administration to support the move at WTO to provide TRIPS waiver to COVID-19 vaccines.
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