TPP provides many benefits and advantages to our country, Malaysia. This is so because TPPA help in terms of economic progress. In line with the growing progress we should be wise in arranging step so that our country can become a developed country like other countries in the world. For example, Qatar, Luxembourg, Singapore, Brunei and Kuwait who are economically developed.
However, there are a variety of effects or impikasi that occur due to the establishment of the TPPA, led by the United States. TPPA establishment indirectly affects the lives of citizens and also to the development of the country. This has created concern to the people as a result of the establishment of the TPPA can be seen now that the short-term effects.
One of the effects of the TPPA involves an increase in the price of medicines. According to the TPPA agreement, prices of medicines will increase between 60% and 80% from the current price. This agreement will involve the regulation of medicines in generic drugs have changed that are not allowed to be sold in the member countries of the TPPA. A generic drug is cheaper imitations that have the same content and effect of the original drug. Thus, drugs can only be purchased directly from
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TPPA is expected to abolish import duties on rice from the United States, which is currently charged at 40%. If the tax is abolished, the price of American rice will be cheaper than the price of local rice because of high subsidies given to US government rice producer country, then it causes the price of rice can not be matched by our country in rice prices. When this happens, the rice industry of our country will become weak and farmers would suffer a loss of income sources is high because so far our country uses its own agricultural products to be sold on the Malaysian market. As a result, we will be dependent on the supply of rice from the United States because the United States is a major exporter of
It is concerning that the exit of the United States in TPP will allow for the foothold of competing
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Pharmaceutical spending in Canada has inclined rapidly over the years. Prescriptions drug spending in Canada has been inclined by several different factors. These factors have contributed to expenditure by the growth of the population, price effects volume effects and much more. The cost of drugs has affected the drug expenditures in Canada in several different ways. Some of the factors are international pricing, inflation, retail and wholesale markups. Introducing new products to the market has increased the drug expenditure while the generic brands have decreased. Furthermore, changes in price controls or extending patent legislation has prevented a less expensive alternative from coming to the market. Changes in policies like regulations,
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Trans-Pacific Partnership is a trade block that seeks to bring together countries from the Asian continent with those in the South and North America, especially those sharing the pacific coastline. The partnership was initiated by a total of four countries including Brunei, Chile, New Zealand, and Singapore. However, since its establishment in the year 2005, the number of interested parties has increased to the current 12 countries. As of late 2013, countries such as Canada, United States, Vietnam, Mexico, Malaysia, Peru, Japan and Australia had indicated interest to join the pioneer countries in the partnership. Being a member of this partnership has been under
of markets, including the auto industry, and in the spotlight, the dairy and beef markets.
In the pharmaceutical world, payers have switched to the generic brand over the brand-name drugs (The Commonwealth Fund, 2016). Although efforts to slow down the costs of healthcare might have work a little bit. A recent report shows spending has grew 5.7 percent in the past year (Altarum Institute, 2015).
As Canada is not a very large country population wise, it is crucial that Canadian companies are protected from large, capital-orientated companies worldwide. Although the Trans-Pacific Partnership will eliminate many tariffs, the beef and pork industry will still benefit greatly. Canada exported about $3.9 billion dollars worth of product to the potential TPP markets in the years 2012 to 2014 (The ABCs of TPP. (n.d.). Retrieved November 23, 2015, from
Economic: Globalization of the pharmaceutical industry is an exciting opportunity to have research and development done at cheaper prices in other countries. However, this could be a double edged sword for companies because it is easy for other countries, such as India, to produce generic versions of the drug in bulk.
In turn, individuals are typically driven by self-interest. The central objective of the TPP is to cause trade within the 12 countries involved to be less costly. This could go one of two ways; American Companies could have the opportunity to trade cost-free with 11 other countries, or American Companies could move their businesses elsewhere, where labor is cheaper, and ship their products back to America for a cheaper price. The average American Citizens tends to see this with a glass-half-empty approach because of two factors. A majority of the money that would come from relocating labor overseas would only benefit the upper class of America, and because of the impacts of a prior trade agreement, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). When NAFTA was enacted on January 1, 1994, many large companies moved their labor elsewhere (i.e. Mexico or Canada). According to a research group the Economic Policy Institute, NAFTA cost us upwards of 800,000 jobs. Therefore, it is only reasonable to assume that the potential TPP agreement will have similar affects to the NAFTA
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This enabled numerous “me too” drugs to achieve satisfactory returns on investment. Imitating a known drug reduced R&D risk considerably, while the marketplace was open to products offering minor advantages such as a more convenient dosage with fewer side effects, but with much the same therapeutic outcome. Generics legislation had a major impact on the industry, providing incentives for innovation and a race to market. The time during which R&D costs could be recouped was drastically curtailed, putting upward pressure on prices. By the end of the 1970s generic entrants and more stringent controls on clinical trials had led to substantial increases in R&D spending.
Yes, there is an impact on the pharmaceutical company, like those in the US as a result of differential prices between that country and other nations.
Continuous rapid economic growth has raised Malaysia from an agricultural and commodity-based low-income economy to a successful middle-income economy. As a mixed economy, Malaysia has elements of a free market economy nevertheless with intervention government. Malaysia's economic activity consist of a mixture of sectors whereas mixed of capitalism and socialism The strong economic performance has helped improve the quality of life for Malaysians and supported advances in education, health, infrastructure, housing and public amenities and others.
As mentioned earlier, the TPP is a major potential free trade agreement between twelve of the Pacific Rim countries. The countries are Australia, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, The United States, Vietnam, Brunei, Chile, New Zealand, and Singapore (Freil, Sharon, Gleeson, Thow, Labonte, Stuckler, Kay, and Snowdon 1). Interestingly enough, this agreement is the technical successor to the P4 agreement that was initialised in 2006 (Elms 29). This agreement was held between Chile, Brunei, New Zealand, and Singapore. In 2008 the U.S. showed large interest in joining this agreement giving spark to a new agreement that has enticed other Pacific Rim countries (Elms 29). Taking charge of this new agreement the U.S. has laid down most of the TPP 's foundation to create an agreement that should allow for a