Announcement
23 Apr 2020
On 23 April 2020, the UK authorities announced imposing an export ban on 33 medicines due to prevent any medicine shortages following the Coronavirus outbreak.
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Implementation date
23 Apr 2020
Revocation date:
20 May 2025
Updated: 23 Apr 2020
Export ban
On 23 April 2020, the Department of Health and Social Care of the United Kingdom added 33 medicines to the list of medicines that cannot be parallel exported from the UK. The decision is taken to p...
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