Svitlana Ostapenko
Assignment #5
1RX for US Pharma Trade

3.a). The article discusses a white paper outlining U.S. policies that aim to promote pharmaceutical trade, such as enhancing legal stability for manufacturers of generic medicines; eliminating tariffs on medicines, etc. The U.S. is seeking international partners for expediting access to generic medicines and eliminating tariffs on medicines China). It is argued that these policies also aim to strength the country's lead position in the international drug market. Carriers, such as DHL Global Forwarding and American Airlines Cargo, are drawing plans as a response to these policies. Because of growing export and import carrier companies improve their services (cold chain containers, temperature-sensitive packaging, temperature monitoring technologies etc.).
b). The article highlights such marketing activities as logistics that involves planning, implementing, and controlling the physical flow of materials, final goods, and necessary information, discusses the possibilities of different freight forwarders, storage conditions.
(pp. 418-420)
Also the article touches such definitions as globalization, import, export, trade expansion.
(pp. 18- 19) (p.169)
c). As I see from the article, the U.S. is expanding their trade round the world, that leads to opportunity to low medicine prices inside the country, maybe in future the health care become more affordable for most of the Americans. Also, it means that many new jobs will be available in distribution area, supply-chain management, marketing, promotion, etc. I hope in future, when the market moves to the Eastern Europe, I am as a multilingual student of BTEC department, will have more opportunities to have a job in business-related