Harmful Trade Policy Interventions: Medical Goods

This Thread tracks harmful trade policy interventions affecting HS codes for medical consumables, equipment, medicines, vaccines, as well as chemicals used in pharmaceutical production. It covers all types of interventions monitored by Global Trade Alert since 2009. To identify relevant policy actions, the Global Trade Alert team focused on the identification of relevant HS codes following the product listed in the GTA Essential Goods Initiative, as well as goods listed on the OECD report ‘Shortages of Medicines in OECD Countries’ (Chapman et al., 2022).