Biden like­ly to sign a bill that would crack down on Chi­na's choke­hold on the an­tibi­ot­ic sup­ply

The Sen­ate on Mon­day passed (68-28) a wide-rang­ing, Biden-backed and al­ready House-passed bill that would bol­ster Amer­i­can man­u­fac­tur­ing, and try to crack down on Chi­na’s con­trol of cer­tain vi­tal sup­plies like phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals.

Chi­na quick­ly reached the fore­front of API and gener­ic drug man­u­fac­tur­ing world­wide over the last decade, thanks in part to low la­bor costs, as the FDA’s da­ta show the num­ber of reg­is­tered fa­cil­i­ties mak­ing APIs in Chi­na more than dou­bled be­tween 2010 and 2019.

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