Tariff-Secrecy Double Bind: How Global Trade Rules Undermine Pharmaceutical Access In The Global South
Examining the growing structural gap between TRIPS’ public-health objectives and the contemporary political economy of pharmaceuticals, Tanya Verma in her entry for the SpicyIP-jhana Blogpost Writing Competition, argues that tariff regimes and expanding trade-secret protections together create a “double bind” that constrains the Global South’s ability to both import and manufacture medicines. Tanya is a fifth year student at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow. Tariff-Secrecy Double Bind: How Global Trade Rules Undermine Pharmaceutical Access In The Global […]
