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United Kingdom: Imposition of export ban on lithium carbonate in response to the COVID-19 outbreak

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07 Sep 2020

On 7 September 2020, the UK authorities announced the introduction of an export ban on lithium carbonate due to possible use in the treatment against COVID-19.

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1

1 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

0 liberalising

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Implementation date

07 Sep 2020

Revocation date:

14 Dec 2021

Updated: 07 Sep 2020
Export ban

On 7 September 2020, the Department of Health and Social Care of the United Kingdom added lithium carbonate to the medicines that cannot be parallel exported from the UK. The export ban was introdu...

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