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Qu� opinan sumerbustecit@s? a javor uen contra de mantener las patentes
aunquihaya gran necesid�?
1.-
"...Paulo Teixeira, director of Brazil's anti-AIDS program, told reporters
this
week that the United States' efforts to reduce the price of Cipro, under
threat of breaking Bayer's patent, mimics similar strong-arm tactics that
Brazil has used. Washington threatened at one point to file a W.T.O. case
against Brazil on behalf of American drug makers.
"They are doing exactly what we did," Mr. Teixeira said of the Bush
administration's position on Cipro. "It is inconsistent to then oppose
making that an option on a global level."
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Disputes on textiles have also become more pointed since Sept. 11.
Developing countries have been arguing for years that industrial nations,
especially
the United States, have been unwilling to open their doors to clothing and
textile products, which along with farm products are the leading exports of
many poor countries.
When the Bush administration last week broached the possibility of reducing
tariffs or increasing the quota allocations on Pakistani textiles, the
concession to a war ally resonated loudly in Geneva. There, American
negotiators have been fighting to preserve the right to shelter the
politically powerful domestic textile industry.
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