Market access free trade

There are already serious questions about the relevance and suitability of TRIPS minimum IP standards for developing countries (CIPR 2002 UNDP 2003). The gross inflation of these standards in "free trade" agreements severely limit national strategies to provide affordable medicines and limits market access for generic medicines, irrespective of the country s level of development or disease burden. These practices not only raise serious ethical concerns, but also sharply curtail country capacity to realize the right to health for all. 

Sustainability in an economic sense means an efficient allocation of scarce goods and resources. This presupposes a flexible economy with freedom of trade, i.e., free access to markets. This means that maximum innovation will be achieved, that changes will occur as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible and that the consumer will enjoy the best provision of goods and services under these conditions. Consequently unavoidable intervention by the. state in the market processes should limit competition to the smallest extent [41. 

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