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United Kingdom: Export ban on several pharmaceutical products due to anticipated shortages

Announcement

03 Oct 2019

On 3 October 2019, the UK authorities announced the introduction of an export ban on a number of medicine due to anticipated shortages in the country. 

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Number of interventions

1

1 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

0 liberalising

List of interventions

Implementation date

04 Oct 2019

Revocation date:

No revocation date

Announced: 03 Oct 2019
Export ban In force
On 4 October 2019, the UK government established a medicines that cannot be parallel exported from the UK list and subsequently added twenty medicines to it. The export ban was introduced on the subje...
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