美国贸易代表凯瑟琳·泰（Katherine Tai）今天发表声明，宣布拜登·哈里斯政府（Biden-Harris Administration）支持放弃对COVID-19疫苗的知识产权保护。
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美国贸易代表凯瑟琳·泰（Katherine Tai）今天发表声明，宣布拜登·哈里斯政府（Biden-Harris Administration）支持放弃对COVID-19疫苗的知识产权保护。
“这是一场全球性健康危机，COVID-19大流行的特殊情况要求采取特殊措施。政府对保护知识产权深信不疑，但为了结束这场大流行，政府支持放弃对COVID-19疫苗的那些（知识产权）保护。我们将积极参与实现这一目标所需的世界贸易组织（WTO）的文本谈判。鉴于机构的共识基础和所涉问题的复杂性，这些谈判将需要时间。
“政府的目标是尽快向尽可能多的人提供尽可能多的安全有效疫苗。在确保为人民提供疫苗的基础上，政府将继续加大力度-与私营部门和所有可能的合作伙伴合作-扩大疫苗的生产和分销。它还将努力增加生产这些疫苗所需的原材料。”
WASHINGTON – United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai today released a statement announcing the Biden-Harris Administration’s support for waiving intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines.
“This is a global health crisis, and the extraordinary circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic call for extraordinary measures. The Administration believes strongly in intellectual property protections, but in service of ending this pandemic, supports the waiver of those protections for COVID-19 vaccines. We will actively participate in text-based negotiations at the World Trade Organization (WTO) needed to make that happen. Those negotiations will take time given the consensus-based nature of the institution and the complexity of the issues involved.
“The Administration’s aim is to get as many safe and effective vaccines to as many people as fast as possible. As our vaccine supply for the American people is secured, the Administration will continue to ramp up its efforts – working with the private sector and all possible partners – to expand vaccine manufacturing and distribution. It will also work to increase the raw materials needed to produce those vaccines.”
Tweet from @AmbassadorTai:
These extraordinary times and circumstances of call for extraordinary measures.
The US supports the waiver of IP protections on COVID-19 vaccines to help end the pandemic and we’ll actively participate in @WTO negotiations to make that happen.