REGULATORY

Industry Opposes to Market Price Survey for Possible 2017 Revision; “No Reason to Conduct Survey if Sales Tax Hike Is Postponed”: FPMAJ Chairman

May 19, 2016
Masafumi Nogimori, chairman of the Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Associations of Japan (FPMAJ), declared his opposition to a market price-based price revision in April 2017 in conjunction with the planned sales tax hike at a general meeting of the Central…

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