{"id":6095,"date":"2021-06-22T11:22:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T15:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/?p=6095"},"modified":"2021-06-22T11:44:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T15:44:14","slug":"biden-administration-urged-to-push-eu-to-support-covid-trips-waiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/blog\/2021\/06\/22\/biden-administration-urged-to-push-eu-to-support-covid-trips-waiver\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Administration Urged to Push EU to Support COVID TRIPS Waiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A wide range of U.S.-based public health, human rights, faith, labor, consumer and other organizations are calling on President Biden to <span data-offset-key=\"fqguf-0-0\">persuade the European Union and other nations to negotiate on the TRIPS waiver\u00a0<\/span><span data-offset-key=\"fqguf-2-0\">in good faith and come to a fast and effective final agreement that can increase global supplies of vaccines, diagnostics and treatments needed to end the COVID pandemic. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Commending President Biden for his support of a TRIPS waiver, the letter by 132 organizations says, &#8220;It is outrageous that the European Union and a very few other WTO members continue to oppose a TRIPS waiver even as more transmissible variants are fueling new waves of death and devastation raging through India, Brazil, Nepal, Vietnam and additional countries. We respectfully request that the U.S. government engage all possible efforts to persuade waiver-opposing WTO member countries to engage in the text-based negotiations in good faith and agree on a timely and effective waiver.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>The full text of the letter is below (and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/COVIDTRIPSWaiver_SignOnLtr2_062221.pdf\">a PDF is online here<\/a><\/strong>):<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Honorable Joe Biden<br \/>\nPresident of the United States<br \/>\nThe White House<br \/>\n1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW<br \/>\nWashington, DC 20500<\/p>\n<p>Cc:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Katherine Tai, United States Trade Representative<br \/>\nJeffrey Zients, White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator<br \/>\nGayle E. Smith, State Department Coordinator for Global COVID Response and Health\u00a0Security<\/p>\n<p>June 22, 2021<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please Speedily Secure Implementation of a COVID-19 Emergency Waiver of WTO TRIPS Rules for Vaccines, Tests and Treatments<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dear President Biden:<\/p>\n<p>We commend you for putting the United States on the right side of history by announcing support for the temporary COVID-19 emergency waiver of some World Trade Organization (WTO) intellectual property monopolies so we can end the pandemic\u2019s death and economic devastation as speedily as possible. Reversing Donald Trump\u2019s self-defeating blockage of WTO negotiations for a waiver of pharmaceutical monopolies under the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) elevates the United States as a global leader with a mission to save lives and restore livelihoods.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations on the speed with which you made vaccines available to the\u00a0US\u00a0public. Keeping Americans safe from COVID-19 and revitalizing the American economy to build back better relies on people worldwide having access to COVID-19 vaccines, as well as diagnostic tests,\u00a0treatments, personal protective equipment, and other COVID-19 specific health\u00a0as quickly as possible. The temporary WTO TRIPS waiver is key to that mission. It is also critical to saving millions of lives globally.<\/p>\n<p>It is outrageous that the European Union and\u00a0a very few\u00a0other WTO members continue to oppose a TRIPS waiver even as\u00a0more transmissible variants are fueling new waves of death and devastation raging through India, Brazil, Nepal, Vietnam and\u00a0additional countries.\u00a0We respectfully request that the U.S. government engage all possible efforts to persuade waiver-opposing WTO member countries to engage in the text-based negotiations in good faith and agree on a timely and effective waiver.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We the undersigned organizations respectfully urge you to speedily secure a waiver that is:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Comprehensive:<\/strong>The U.S. government must\u00a0secure swift adoption of a temporary waiver\u00a0of\u00a0the patent, copyright, industrial design and undisclosed data rules of the WTO\u2019s TRIPS Agreement with respect to COVID-19-related medical\u00a0products. The scope of the waiver\u00a0must extend beyond vaccines to also cover the diagnostic tests needed to detect outbreaks and variants; the\u00a0treatments,\u00a0ventilators and other medical\u00a0devices\u00a0necessary to shorten lockdowns and save the lives of the millions who will contract\u00a0COVID-19 before sufficient vaccine doses can be made\u00a0and\u00a0the materials, components, means and methods of manufacturing such goods.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Swift:<\/strong>The WTO Director General\u2019s December 2021 deadline for a final waiver text is far too late to meet the urgency of the pandemic, which requires agreement on a waiver in a matter of weeks, not months.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Long-lasting:<\/strong>A waiver must be of sufficient duration to incentivize and sustain increases in manufacturing capacity for and output of medical goods to prevent, contain or treat COVID-19, taking into consideration that the pandemic may yet escape current vaccines. We support the waiver sponsors\u2019 proposal that the initial waiver last three years and be regularly reviewed thereafter, particularly given uncertainties around variants, the need for boosters, and what levels of immunization may be needed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Current global production capacity of COVID-19 vaccines, medicines, and diagnostic tests cannot come close to meeting global needs to detect, treat, prevent, or contain COVID-19. Absent significant increases in vaccine production, many in developing nations will not have access to vaccines until 2024.\u00a0This lag\u00a0would mean\u00a0more deaths and the\u00a0greater chances for\u00a0development of new variants that can undermine\u00a0vaccines&#8217;\u00a0achievements to date.<\/p>\n<p>Every country should have the right to develop and make their own vaccines free from the worry that they and their suppliers would be sued by IP holders. To date,\u00a0 vaccine intellectual property rightsholders have refused to issue open licenses under transparent and accountable terms and conditions, and transfer technology fully to and negotiate payment terms with qualified manufacturers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, creating supply shortages and production bottlenecks and prohibiting urgently needed production of doses worldwide.\u00a0The worst global health crisis in a century has resulted in\u00a0at least\u00a03.5 million deaths worldwide and is\u00a0conservatively estimated to cost the U.S. alone\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2020\/11\/what-might-covid-cost-the-u-s-experts-eye-16-trillion\/\">$16 trillion<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizen.org\/article\/waiver-of-wto-protections-for-big-pharma-will-help-u-s-economic-recovery-and-boost-u-s-employment\/\">economic losses<\/a>, accompanied by yet\u00a0greater global losses that have impoverished hundreds of millions of people worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>We are in a race against time to save lives and prevent new variants. Absent a major increase in vaccines, treatments, diagnostic tests, ventilators, and other COVID-19-related medical\u00a0supplies, the pandemic will rage largely unmitigated among a significant share of the world\u2019s population. COVID-19 infections will increase, resulting in increased deaths and long-term damage to the health of millions of people, a dragging blow to the global economy and a risk that vaccine-resistant variants will put the world back on lockdown and evade immunity for those previously infected and\/or vaccinated.\u00a0The long-term impact on people\u2019s health and the world\u2019s health system would be unprecedented.<\/p>\n<p>To most quickly translate enactment of a temporary COVID-19 emergency TRIPS waiver into billions of vaccine shots in arms, the U.S. government additionally must deploy tools to rapidly promote technology transfer and know-how sharing,\u00a0and leverage existing legal authorities.\u00a0To protect U.S. health, economic recovery and\u00a0security, the United States should launch an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizen.org\/news\/public-citizen-analysis-25-billion-investment-can-vaccinate-the-world\/\">ambitious global vaccine manufacturing program<\/a>\u00a0to scale up production in the United States and, equally as important,\u00a0in regional manufacturing centers around the world to produce and supply\u00a08 billion more doses by repurposing existing facilities and building new capacity, including by allocating\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mkus3lurbh3lbztg254fzode-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Global-vaccine-program-2-pager-Feb-19-2021.pdf\">$2 billion<\/a>\u00a0in funds to capital expenditures to establish additional COVID-19 mRNA vaccine manufacturing lines and providing $23 billion in funding for raw materials, technology transfer and royalty costs to scale up production and shave years from the global pandemic. These additional initiatives can most speedily ensure the TRIPS waiver facilitates more production here and abroad of needed COVID-19 medicines.<\/p>\n<p>Low-\u00a0and\u00a0middle-income countries are prepared to locally mass produce vaccines as soon as a TRIPS waiver is approved. The idea that these countries do not have the skills and capacity to roll this out is false and founded on racism and neocolonialism.<\/p>\n<p>As U.S. Trade Representative Tai\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ustr.gov\/about-us\/policy-offices\/press-office\/press-releases\/2021\/may\/statement-ambassador-katherine-tai-covid-19-trips-waiver\">said<\/a>\u00a0when announcing the Biden-Harris administration\u2019s support for waiving WTO intellectual property barriers, the extraordinary circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic call for extraordinary measures.\u00a0As citizens of the world, we cannot sit and watch a repeat of the horror during the AIDS pandemic,\u00a0when millions of people died while countries and companies refused to share life-saving\u00a0antiretrovirals.\u00a0We are morally obliged to make the TRIPS waiver happen\u00a0as soon as possible.\u00a0We look forward to working with you to meet this moment.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>ActionAid USA<br \/>\nAgricultural Justice Project<br \/>\nAIDS Healthcare Foundation<br \/>\nAlliance for Global Justice<br \/>\nAlliance for Retired Americans<br \/>\nAmerican Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)<br \/>\nAmerican Federation of Teachers<br \/>\nAmerican Friends Services Committee<br \/>\nAmerican Jewish World Service<br \/>\nAmerican Medical Student Association<br \/>\nAmericas Program\/MX<br \/>\nAmnesty International<br \/>\nAssociation of Flight Attendants-CWA<br \/>\nAssociation of Western Pulp &amp; Paper Workers Union<br \/>\nAvaaz<br \/>\nAVAC<br \/>\nBackbone Campaign<br \/>\nBlack AIDS Institute<br \/>\nBlack Health Commission<br \/>\nCampaign for America&#8217;s Future<br \/>\nCenter for Biological Diversity<br \/>\nCenter for Common Ground<br \/>\nCenter for Digital Democracy<br \/>\nCenter for Global Justice<br \/>\nCenter for International Policy<br \/>\nCenter for Policy Analysis on Trade and Health<br \/>\nCenter for Popular Democracy<br \/>\nCentro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc.<br \/>\nCitizens Trade Campaign<br \/>\nCoalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW)<br \/>\nCODEPINK<br \/>\nCommunications Workers of America (CWA)<br \/>\nCouncil on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)<br \/>\nCenter for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)<br \/>\nDean&#8217;s Beans Organic Coffee Company<br \/>\nDebs-Jones-Douglass Institute<br \/>\nDemocratic Socialists of America<br \/>\nDisruption Project<br \/>\nDoctors For America<br \/>\nDoctors For Global Health<br \/>\nDoctors Without Borders \/ M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res USA<br \/>\nDolores Huerta Foundation<br \/>\nDrug Prices are Too High<br \/>\nDrugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), North America<br \/>\nEarth Action, Inc.<br \/>\nEarth Island Institute<br \/>\nEcoEquity<br \/>\nEnvironmentalists Against War<br \/>\nEvangelical Lutheran Church in America<br \/>\nFair World Project<br \/>\nFamily Farm Defenders<br \/>\nFight for the Future<br \/>\nFree Speech For People<br \/>\nFriends of 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