Keywords: Intellectual Property Rights
Pharmaceutical industry
World Trade Organization
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The main risks arising from the WTO Agreement are the inequality and lack of competitiveness
of most pharmaceutical goods, as well as the fact that Iraq is a net importer of medicines that are
at the core of consumer needs, The subject matter of the Convention on the Protection of
Intellectual Property Rights and its implications for the pharmaceutical industry, in particular,
coinciding with the situation of financial and administrative corruption, all of which has resulted
in drug fraud in the Iraqi market and its impact on public health. The control of medical
technology, the persistence of the technological gap and its effects on high price levels, and the
fact that domestic drug producers are obliged to obtain production licenses from
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