UK Agrees to Pay More for US Medicines After Trade Negotiations

UK Agrees to Pay More for US Medicines After Trade Negotiations

Pharmacist Halina Jankowski at the Northside Pharmacy in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, on June 18, 2014. Samira Bouaou/Epoch Times

The UK’s National Health Service will pay 25 percent more for new, patented U.S. medicines under the terms of a new trade agreement between the two nations.

The deal is the latest in a series of agreements in which the United States has leveraged tariffs to secure concessions on prescription drug prices. This is the first deal reached with a nation rather than with pharmaceutical manufacturers.
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Original News Source Link – Epoch Times

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