Most medicines are imported for retail sale
Last year, imports of pharmaceutical products in Ukraine in monetary terms amounted to just over $ 3 billion, the press service of Minrevenue informs.
Statistically, the leaders began to import drugs dosage or packaged for retail sale. This product is imported in the amount of $ 2.6 billion, or 83.8 % of the total volume of imported pharmaceutical products.
In turn, most of them are imported drug, consisting of mixed or unmixed products of therapeutic or prophylactic uses, and products containing antibiotics. The volume of imports of this category of drugs was $ 1.9 billion in 2013.
Major imports of dosage or packaged medicines was observed in Q4 2012 as well as 2013, which analysts from the Ministry consider to be connected with the so-called "epidemic period".
For example, in Q4 2013 they imported dosage or packaged drugs worth $ 824.1 million, of which nearly $ 603 million - drugs for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, and antibiotics.
