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It would be, but the US has an export ban on covid vaccines, just like the UK does.

CubsFan1060 6y ago
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/pfizer-export-us-made-covid-19-shots-canada-starting-next-week-2021-04-30/ https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/... Already shipping to Mexico, about to start shipping to Canada.
- kuschku 6y ago
  Pretty much half a year later than originally agreed. Considering this 6 month delay in vaccine availability, it's incredible how well most countries held up.
- bawolff 6y ago
  They're taking over what belgium was shipping us, but not increasing the amount. So its not exactly team usa here to save the day.
317070 6y ago
Afaik, the UK does not have an export ban [0] I would be interested for a source if that has changed. [0] https://www.politico.eu/article/why-the-uk-doesnt-need-a-coronavirus-vaccine-export-ban/ https://www.politico.eu/article/why-the-uk-doesnt-need-a-cor...
- kuschku 6y ago
  The UK doesn't have a technical export ban, just a contractual requirement that all UK manufacturers have to first supply all UK contracts before supplying any export contracts. Even though the UK contracts were signed after other contracts. Whether that's an "export ban" or not is semantics, the result is the same: nothing is exported.
makomk 6y ago
So. It turns out that the EU propaganda may have been just as misleading about US vaccine exports as everything else - although no finished vaccines came from the US, apparently a good chunk of the raw drug substance which AstraZeneca packaged up into vaccines from the EU market was imported from the US early on: https://www.politico.eu/article/astrazeneca-vaccine-shortfall-production-woes-documents/ https://www.politico.eu/article/astrazeneca-vaccine-shortfal...
- TMWNN 6y ago
  >So. It turns out that the EU propaganda may have been just as misleading about US vaccine exports as everything else - although no finished vaccines came from the US, apparently a good chunk of the raw drug substance which AstraZeneca packaged up into vaccines from the EU market was imported from the US early on Yes. The EU didn't ban vaccine exports to the US because it was afraid that the US would in turn stop the component supply chain that European plants need to function.
908B64B197 6y ago
There is no such thing as an export ban.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/pfizer-export-us-made-covid-19-shots-canada-starting-next-week-2021-04-30/ https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/... Already shipping to Mexico, about to start shipping to Canada.

kuschku 6y ago
Pretty much half a year later than originally agreed. Considering this 6 month delay in vaccine availability, it's incredible how well most countries held up.
bawolff 6y ago
They're taking over what belgium was shipping us, but not increasing the amount. So its not exactly team usa here to save the day.

317070 6y ago

Afaik, the UK does not have an export ban [0] I would be interested for a source if that has changed. [0] https://www.politico.eu/article/why-the-uk-doesnt-need-a-coronavirus-vaccine-export-ban/ https://www.politico.eu/article/why-the-uk-doesnt-need-a-cor...

kuschku 6y ago
The UK doesn't have a technical export ban, just a contractual requirement that all UK manufacturers have to first supply all UK contracts before supplying any export contracts. Even though the UK contracts were signed after other contracts. Whether that's an "export ban" or not is semantics, the result is the same: nothing is exported.

makomk 6y ago

So. It turns out that the EU propaganda may have been just as misleading about US vaccine exports as everything else - although no finished vaccines came from the US, apparently a good chunk of the raw drug substance which AstraZeneca packaged up into vaccines from the EU market was imported from the US early on: https://www.politico.eu/article/astrazeneca-vaccine-shortfall-production-woes-documents/ https://www.politico.eu/article/astrazeneca-vaccine-shortfal...

TMWNN 6y ago
>So. It turns out that the EU propaganda may have been just as misleading about US vaccine exports as everything else - although no finished vaccines came from the US, apparently a good chunk of the raw drug substance which AstraZeneca packaged up into vaccines from the EU market was imported from the US early on Yes. The EU didn't ban vaccine exports to the US because it was afraid that the US would in turn stop the component supply chain that European plants need to function.

908B64B197 6y ago

There is no such thing as an export ban.