Lawmakers meet FTA Watch over concern of new Customs Act being exploited

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Lawmakers meet FTA Watch over concern of new Customs Act being exploited

BANGKOK, 12 September 2014 (NNT) – The extraordinary committee for evaluation of the Customs Act have met with representatives from free trade monitoring group FTA Watch to address the latter's concern on Section 58 of the draft of the bill, involving potential exploitation of drug patents that are against humanitarian principles.

FTA Watch representatives are concerned that the draft bill's Section 58, which make stipulations about the inspection and seizing of illegal items, might be exploited to gain trade advantages. FTA Watch cited previous cases of enforcement of the patent law in transit countries to intercept shipment of medicine, an act that favors transnational pharmaceutical companies.

To prevent such occurrence, FTA Watch proposed that, within the free trade agreement, an exemption be made on drug patents. It also called for representatives from the Food and Drug Administration to take part in evaluating the draft bill.


-- NNT 2014-09-12

[DrLom]

What's an 'extraordinary committee'?

[Thai at Heart]

So, they are concerned that countries will intercept illegally copied products?

[trogers]

What's an 'extraordinary committee'?

An extraordinary offshoot in our body is often called 'tumor'.

[NongKhaiKid]

What's an 'extraordinary committee'?

Any chance they mean Ad Hoc ?

First time i have ever heard of an ' extraordinary ' committee.

[nong38]

I had some bedding inspected ( 2 sheets ) by customs, thank you for using our service please 782 bts extra at the Post Office!!

[NongKhaiKid]

Could they be ' extraordinary ' because they actually do something or, more likely, they do even less than a normal committee.

[Upset]

All patents on medical drugs and medical equipment should be revoekd and made free for all and all governments should set aside substantial budgets for drug research firms.

[marcusd]

All patents on medical drugs and medical equipment should be revoekd and made free for all and all governments should set aside substantial budgets for drug research firms.

Socialism fails because it has no incentive. What you are proposing is socialism. It is a novel idea but remember PEOPLE run these ideas in Government and look at the mess it creates.

Better keep incentive and profit there so we get medical breakthroughs.

[Prbkk]

All patents on medical drugs and medical equipment should be revoekd and made free for all and all governments should set aside substantial budgets for drug research firms.

Socialism fails because it has no incentive. What you are proposing is socialism. It is a novel idea but remember PEOPLE run these ideas in Government and look at the mess it creates.

Better keep incentive and profit there so we get medical breakthroughs.

Incentive and profit, fine; gouging, profiteering ripoffs, not.

[jcisco]

What's an 'extraordinary committee'?

It is a corporate governance term, used with regards to the meeting of shareholders. Also applies to non corporate entities in which they enact structured meeting rules.

[FangFerang]

All patents on medical drugs and medical equipment should be revoekd and made free for all and all governments should set aside substantial budgets for drug research firms.

Socialism fails because it has no incentive. What you are proposing is socialism. It is a novel idea but remember PEOPLE run these ideas in Government and look at the mess it creates.

Better keep incentive and profit there so we get medical breakthroughs.

Hogwash -- and you falsely played the 'socialism' card-- quick, everyone panic! All world governments fund research into medicine at the University level. NASA files patents (they even have a publication to track them called NASA Tech Briefs).

Patents on drugs and procedures -- yes surgeons are filing procedure patents -- are not incentives...they are blackmail and profiteering opportunism of the worst kind. Such legal protections run counter to the Hippocratic oath (which is a JOKE anymore in American medicine). Further, such patents have "special" protections, and can often be extended indefinitely, and hold the sick ransom to avarice. More than half of all bankruptcy proceedings are caused by medical bills that families cannot afford to pay.

I think it is socialism of a new world disorder to use the rules of capitalism to prevent well-being, competition and free markets -- while simultaneously supporting individual economic collapse so we can each pat ourselves on the back and say "Oh, well, capitalism is still the best idea going."

This is self-delusional arrogance. Capitalism stopped being progressive when it stopped evolving, and unrestricted capitalism is now quickly becoming a dinosaur.

[MILT]

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All patents on medical drugs and medical equipment should be revoekd and made free for all and all governments should set aside substantial budgets for drug research firms.

Socialism fails because it has no incentive. What you are proposing is socialism. It is a novel idea but remember PEOPLE run these ideas in Government and look at the mess it creates.

Better keep incentive and profit there so we get medical breakthroughs.

Incentive should be helping the sick and profiteering on drugs and devices that save people is BS!

Edited September 13, 2014 by MILT