Preventing Foreign Attempts To Erode Healthcare Innovation Act
- Last Action
- 5/18/2021
Actions
- 2021-05-18Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- 2021-05-18Introduced in Senate
CRS Summary
As of 2021-05-18 (00)
Preventing Foreign Attempts to Erode Healthcare Innovation Act
This bill prohibits the use of federal funds to support, allow, or facilitate the negotiation or approval of any measure at the World Trade Organization to waive intellectual property rights, including the waiver proposed by India and South Africa to suspend certain provisions of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights to facilitate the prevention, containment, and treatment of COVID-19.
Cosponsors (3)
- Patrick Toomey (R-PA)
- Charles Grassley (R-IA)
- Richard Burr (R-NC)
Subjects
- Africa
- Asia
- Cardiovascular and respiratory health
- China
- Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
- Emergency medical services and trauma care
- Free trade and trade barriers
- India
- Infectious and parasitic diseases
- Intellectual property
- Property rights
- South Africa
- Technology transfer and commercialization
- Trade agreements and negotiations
- U.S. and foreign investments
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