WTO Approves Controversial Partial TRIPS Waiver

By Jessica Karins, Hannah Monicken / June 17, 2022 at 2:06 PM
The World Trade Organization has reached an official deal on a partial waiver of the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights for COVID-19 vaccines after going overtime at its 12th ministerial conference. Business groups immediately blasted the agreement as going too far while civil society groups said it didn’t go far enough. The conference ran for five days of negotiations, with postponement of the originally planned closing ceremony to finalize the wide-ranging agreement . The document on the COVID-19 intellectual...


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