Javier Milei's government became caught in a tension between geopolitics and the lobbying of national pharmaceutical companies: it blocked Argentina's accession to the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), to which it had committed before April 30 with the United States in the November 2025 Trade and Investment Agreement. This sparked concern from foreign laboratories and the US embassy, with which it is fully aligned.
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