As a resultof this utter failure to think, theUnited States todayis both the world's largestimporter of illicitdrugs and the world's largest exporter of baddrugpolicy.
Teva, which began in 1901 as a wholesaler and importer of drugs, at first grew in part because Israel's lack of data-exclusivity laws allowed it to learn the formulas of imported drugs from the government, after their manufacturers filed the data to get regulatory approval.
Which is where our parallel importer comes in, purchasing drugs from wholesalers in the cheaper countries and then retailing them in the more expensive.