The seminar will focus on the Brazilian pharmaceutical market and will take place a month before the event, between 15 and 31 August.

During the seminar, the following aspects will be covered:

How to export medicines to Brazil:

--> Market potential.

--> Chain market structure.

--> Brazilian importing channels.

--> Sanitary requirements to register pharmaceutical products: costs, time and procedures.

--> The Brazilian Procurement Market: institutions making bulk purchase of medicines and mechanisms to supply this market.

--> Challenges and recommendations to enter the Brazilian market: practical tips for SME´s from other Latin American countries.

How to import raw materials for the pharmaceutical industry:

- Supply potential, availability of raw materials and its applications.

- Comparative advantages of the Brazilian pharmo-chemical industry.

- Prices.

Information on the modalities for participation at the seminar Participation in the seminar.



The conferences, conducted by sector specialists, will take place on 7 September, day of the opening of LatinPharma2006, in Cartagena, and will focus on key subjects for the pharmaceutical industry and natural products in Latin America.

Suggested themes for the conferences are:

Free trading agreements and its impact on accessing medicines.
Practical cases on the use of TRIPS agreements flexibilities.
Pharmaceutical patents: failures of the system and impact on the domestic industry.
Bio-equivalence studies.
Trends and security systems in the packaging industry for the pharmaceutical sector.
International trade trends in medicinal plants and business complementarities with the pharmaceutical industry.
Supply and demand overview of the pharmaceutical sector and natural products in various Latin American countries.




This activity will take place on 8 and 9 September and will consist of a commercial platform that will bring together companies from Latin America operating in each link of the value chain like:

The International Trade Centre will prepare an appointment schedule for each enterprise, established in accordance with interests indicated in the enterprise’s profile form. This profile form has been carefully elaborated to capture the objectives of the enterprises.

During the buyers/sellers meeting, each enterprise will receive together with the appointment schedule, a company profile book compiling all the profile forms of all companies participating in LatinPharma2006.

In order to better prepare yourself to meeting exporting companies and obtain trade transactions, in a limited timeframe, and to comply with the requisites of importing companies, a technical paper recapitulating the information and necessary material is at the disposal of participating companies. Please take a look at this paper .

Experts that undertook the conferences will also be at the disposal of companies for any queries they might have.

Document in Word format for the inscription of the Seminary and the participation in LatinPharma2006

The participation in the conferences and the encounter buying and
selling organized within the framework of LatinPharma2006 is totally gratuitous.

The companies will have to assume solely their expenses of
displacement and lodging in Cartagena de Indias.

The modalities of participation in the electronic seminary of formation on the Brazilian market will be spread in our Web site.

Argentina Bolivia
 
Brazil Cuba

Chile Colombia

 
Costa Rica Ecuador
 
Guatemala Honduras

 
Mexico Nicaragua
 
Paraguay Peru

 
Dominican Republic Uruguay

Venezuela