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Increase in FDI in Pharmaceutical Sector

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..... Increase in FDI in Pharmaceutical Sector - News and Press Release Dated:- 12-2-2014 - News - The Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in pharmaceutical sector jumped by 86.42% from US $ 580.32 million during April-October 2012 to US $ 1081.81 million during the corresponding period April-October, 2013. Out of this, FDI inflow under FIPB approval/ acquisition route during the period April-October, 201 .....

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..... 2 and April-October, 2013 is US$ 134.62 Million and US$ 1073.67 Million respectively. A statement indicating FDI inflows during the said period is annexed. The extant FDI policy in the pharmaceutical sector allows 100% FDI on the automatic route for greenfield investment. 100% FDI is allowed for brownfield investment on the government approval route. In order to ensure availability and affordabi .....

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..... lity of essential medicines and to maintain a reasonable level of research and development expenditure, government has prescribed appropriate conditionalities for approvals under the government approval route. Further, with a view to protecting the domestic pharmaceutical sector, including the production of generics, the Government has decided that non-compete clause would not be allowed except .....

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..... in special circumstances with the approval of the Foreign Investment Promotion Board. Government has also put in place mechanisms like the Drug Price Control Order and the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority to address the issue of affordability and availability of medicines. STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) OF RAJYA SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2183 FOR ANSWER ON 12.02.2014 REG .....

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..... ARDING INCREASE IN FDI IN PHARMACEUTICAL SECTOR FINANCIAL YEAR WISE FDI EQUITY INFLOWS Sector: DRUGS PHARMACEUTICALS Amount of FDI (US$ million) Sl No Year RBI Automatic route FIPB a .....

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..... pproval/ Acquisition route Total FDI inflows %age growth over previous year (in US$ terms) 1 2012-13 (Apr-Oct) 445.69 134.62 580.31 - 2 2013-14 (Apr-Oct) 8.14 1073.67 1,081.81 ( + ) 86.42% The information was given by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Indust .....

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..... ry Dr. E.M. Sudarsana Natchiappan in Rajya Sabha today. - News - Press release - PIB Tax Management India - taxmanagementindia - taxmanagement - taxmanagementindia.com - TMI - TaxTMI - TMITax .....

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