Republican senators push for IP, pharmaceutical negotiators at USTR

A group of 18 Senate Republicans is urging U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer to appoint a chief intellectual property negotiator and designate an official to lead talks on pharmaceuticals with foreign countries. In a July 18 letter to Greer and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick , released on Monday, the lawmakers wrote that filling the positions would help the administration ensure foreign countries “pay their fair share toward the cost of pharmaceutical research and development.” The letter follows a call from...