“Buy American” Update: Essential Medicines May Continue to Come From Abroad (For Now)
By EsqSocial Corporation 29/04/21
The Biden Administration has taken (at least temporarily) the teeth out of a Trump-era Executive Order that directed the government to “Buy American” for essential drugs and medical devices. President Trump’s August 2020 Executive Order on Ensuring Essential Medicines, Medical Countermeasures, and Critical Inputs Are Made in the United States (Executive Order 13944) aimed to reduce dependence on foreign drugs and devices critical to the U.S. public health sector, in part by requiring that the...
By: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP