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Why is the compromise reached at WTO regarding the Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing not a Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) waiver?

  • UPSC 2023
  • 10 marks
  • India and the Global South

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A waiver under Article IX of the Marrakesh Agreement suspends a treaty obligation for a period. What the Twelfth Ministerial Conference (MC12) adopted on 17 June 2022 was a Ministerial Decision on the TRIPS Agreement, which leaves the obligations standing and only eases an exception already inside them. That gap explains the verdict.

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