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A woman smokes a cigarette next a food stall, before the Mexican government's regulation of the general law for tobacco control, in Monterrey, Mexico, on January 14, 2023.

How Big Industry Undermines Mexico's Food and Tobacco Policy

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Policymakers should draw from the commercial determinants of health framework to counter health harming industries

Trade Law Confronts an Exceptional Global Health Crisis

Trade Law Confronts an Exceptional Global Health Crisis

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How should the trade system change after the pandemic?

A New and Weak WTO Deal on TRIPS is Not Fit for Purpose

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An ineffective multilateralism

A New and Weak WTO Deal on TRIPS is Not Fit for Purpose

Sharpening the Tools in the Pandemic-Ending Toolbox

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After nearly two years of negotiation, the WTO makes a decision about COVID-19 vaccine production and access

Sharpening the Tools in the Pandemic-Ending Toolbox

Tackling Food Security and Sustainability

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At last week's World Trade Organization ministerial conference, negotiators found their sea legs

Tackling Food Security and Sustainability

Vaccine Nationalism and Africa

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African Union calls for a "People's Vaccine" as African Academy of Sciences begins mapping local clinical trials sites

Volunteers wait for their names to be called before testing and taking part in a COVID-19 clinical trial at the Wits RHI Shandukani Research Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa, on August 27, 2020. Picture shows a waiting room full of people. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

Coronavirus Drugs—To Have and Have Not

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Africa's least developed countries should apply a WTO patent waiver, to import generic versions of future COVID-19 drugs

Combination of photos show people wearing face masks at the re-opening of the Rood-Wooko city central market, amid the spread of coronavirus in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on April 20, 2020. The picture is a photo montage showing an array of people wearing a variety of masks. REUTERS/Anne Mimault

A Truce in the Trade War Will Save American Lives

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Immediately lifting all tariffs on personal protection equipment will enable doctors and nurses to safely do their work

Masks are seen on a production line manufacturing masks at a factory in Shanghai, China January 31, 2020. New York City alone could face a shortage of millions of masks in the coming months. The image shows a human hand with two bright orange bandaids on the thumb and middle finger picking its way across a huge pile of masks. REUTERS/Aly Song

Six Proactive Steps in a Smart Trade Approach to Fighting COVID-19

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Tariffs, subsidies, waivers, licensure, and what a trade agenda to support the fight against coronavirus might look like

Container ship RDO Concord sails through the Suez Canal on November 17, 2019. The picture places the viewer in the wake of a massive freighter stacked high with metal shipping containers as a smaller patrol-type boat passes in the foreground. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany