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Bangladesh races ahead on obesity drug exports
Mint Chennai
|December 20, 2025
Indian drugmakers such as Dr. Reddy’s and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries are already playing catch-up with Bangladesh, even as they prepare to enter the global market for generic semaglutide—a blockbuster diabetes and weight-loss drug—following approval from the Delhi High Court.
Seven cos make and sell the drug in Bangladesh.
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Leveraging the country’s ‘least-developed country’ (LDC) status under World Trade Organization rules, Bangladeshi manufacturers have been producing and exporting low-cost copies of semaglutide for more than two years.
This story is from the December 20, 2025 edition of Mint Chennai.
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