Indian drugmakers' woes as US competition hots up and prices under pressure

12 June 2018

Indian pharma majors selling copycat drugs in the USA are facing the heat given the steep competition and pricing pressure, and President Donald Trump's new policy on lowering drug prices, reports The Pharma Letter’s India correspondent.

The USA is an important market for Indian pharmaceutical makers constituting about 40.6% of the total $16.8 billion exports to the USA in fiscal year 2017.

With President Trump directing his top trade negotiator to strongly take up with all countries the fixing of prices of American pharmaceuticals, his description of drug price fixing by foreign countries as 'unjustified and done at the expense of America's research and development' has not gone down well with Indian government officials as well as domestic drug experts.

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