# Foreign drug import is now legal: discussion thread

**URL:** https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/foreign-drug-import-is-now-legal-discussion-thread/1093
**Category:** Insurance
**Tags:** insulin, canada
**Created:** [May 30, 2017, 4:06pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/foreign-drug-import-is-now-legal-discussion-thread/1093 "2017-05-30T16:06:45Z")
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### Author: ![Michel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/michel/32/387_2.png) [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2017, 3:27pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/foreign-drug-import-is-now-legal-discussion-thread/1093/24 "2017-05-31T15:27:00Z")

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Brand new IP-Watch analysis by Frederick Abbott specifically addresses the gray market import of drugs into the US:

[Paving the way for parallel imports to exert downward pressure on domestic pharmaceutical prices](https://www.ip-watch.org/2017/05/31/us-supreme-court-adopts-international-exhaustion-patents-paving-way-parallel-imports-exert-downward-pressure-domestic-pharmaceutical-prices/)

Frederick Abbott is Edward Ball Eminent Scholar and Professor of International Law at Florida State University College of Law.

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