Dominican Republic

Increasing the capacity for local development and production of medicines and other health technologies in Latin America and the Caribbean is among the objectives of the new deal.

Medicines regulators from Mexico, Colombia and Cuba have pledged to create a new agency for medicines and medical devices of Latin America and the Caribbean.

FDA's "detention without physical examination" import alerts allows it to " detain affected [import] products if inspection has revealed that a firm is not operating in conformity with" GMPs, though it typically seeks to prevent distribution of a domestic firm's products only after it fails to respond to a warning letter.