OREANDA-NEWS In January-November last year, Russia reduced imports of medicines from the United States to multi-year lows: in monetary terms, compared with the same period in 2023, it almost tripled to $ 13.2 million, RIA Novosti estimated, having studied data from the American statistical agency.

Thus, the supply of medicines for 11 months of last year fell back to the levels of 20 years ago: for example, in January-November 2004, Russian imports of medicines from America amounted to 12.3 million dollars.

In total, during the reporting period last year, the United States exported medicines worth $ 32.4 billion, while Russia ranked only 56th in the ranking of the largest buyers.

The United Kingdom (12% of total exports in monetary terms), Canada and Spain (both 11% each), as well as Japan (10% of US exports) were the most active buyers of medicines from the United States.