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India Prepares EU Trade Complaint

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This article details the manner in which pharmaceutical companies like Sanofi, Novartis and other western pharma companies are using EU patent laws to have customs offices in the Netherlands and other European transit points to detain pharma shipments by Indian companies to developing countries. Cipla and Ind-Swift shipments are mentioned. India's pharma exports of generics and other medicines is $4.9 billion in 2009 according to Global Trade Information Services. Indian pharma companies are having to divert these shipments through Singapore and other transit poits to avoid this detaining of shipments and this costs more. India plans to file a complaint with the World Trade Organization according to India's commerce secretary, which one expert says it has agood chance of winning.

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