Local Generics Win Big In China's Latest National Tender
Eisai's Lenvima Loses Out
Executive Summary
Only four multinationals, including Pfizer, had to make deep cuts to the prices of their off-patent drugs to outbid local generic competitors in China’s seventh round of centralized volume-based procurement. Among the foreign firms that lost out in the bidding, Eisai looks set to be dealt the heaviest blow in terms of market share.
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