Although definitions stopped in the United States, there is uncertainty that is looming and anxious about how a potential commercial war can reach the supply of medicines in Canada.
Canada got a 30 -day postponement from the US tariff threatened by President Donald Trump, but that did little to calm fears in the world of medicines.
“I think there is concern here that any kind of tariff war on this space can send ripples in the supply chain,” said Mina Tadros, an assistant professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto.
Tadrous Global News told that anxiety stems from the fact that the supply chain of drugs is so globally that the production of each drug crosses multiple limits before Canadians get the final product of the local pharmacy.
Therefore, it can be the structure of definitions [an] “The additional effect on how to make drugs work,” he said.
In Canada, the prices of pharmaceutical products are controlled by federal bodies.
The prices of branded drugs bearing a brand are monitored by the patented patented drug prices board and negotiating them by the Canadian Pharmaceutical Alliance (PCPA), which negotiates on behalf of the federal, regional and regional governments in Canada.
“For non -brand drugs,” said Jeff Conel, deputy head of corporate affairs in corporate affairs in the formulation of drug plans. “The Canadian Public Medicines Association (CGPA) is negotiating.
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“These prices are also negotiated to Canadian patients who have drug coverage through the employer’s plan, or pay for their medical prescription medications outside the pocket,” he told Global News.
Can Canada generate medicines in a commercial war?
Canada relies heavily on other countries such as the United States, India and European countries for active pharmaceutical components and final dose products, according to what it said. Report 2022 prepared for CGPA.
“Almost everything [active pharmaceutical ingredients] He used to manufacture medicines in Canada comes from abroad.
“There are concerns when Canada mostly depends on a handful of foreign countries to secure enough supplies to manufacture medicines locally.”
It was not yet clear whether drugs would be struggling with the temporary stalling threat of Trump from a 25 percent tariff on Canadian goods, minus energy that will face a 10 percent tariff.
Canadians do not include anti -US models on the United States.
Tadrous hopes that drugs and medications, especially critical medications, will be excluded from a commercial war so that patients do not end in paying them.
“At the end of the day, we just want to make sure that patients who need medications get them,” he said.
Since the tariff tensions between Canada and the United States are ripening, the “Canadian purchase” movement is increasingly steam, as consumers abandon the United States’ products for local products.
Daniel Terefler, professor of economy and international trade and competitiveness at the University of Toronto, said, while focusing during the trade war may be on elements such as grocery and consumer goods, medications are a large part of trade as well.
“We tend to think about the world in terms of goods facing the consumer, such as the wild grapes we eat, like the clothes we wear. But this is a small part of the entire economy, and it is a small part of how we interact with the United States.”
“The big things we interact with with the United States, for example, are pharmaceutical companies, all these social media platforms, Google search engines, etc.”
“This is where the great Americans of the Americans are,” he told Global News.
To make a concrete effect, the Canadians advised a local alternative to public drugs on their next trip to the pharmacy.
If the trade war begins, Tadrous said that Canada cannot rely on the self -sufficiency of thousands of different pharmaceutical products.
He said that more than 80 percent of all medicines in Canada and the United States are produced outside its own borders, and it is added if the customs tariff is imposed on drugs, public motivations and insurance companies on both sides of the border to control how to cover how they cover the cost of these medications.
He said: “I think in the short term, we do not expect that there will be any great pressure on the prices of medicines, but I think in the long run, it can have some serious effects on our supplies of medicines.”
