However, Sigman's business luck knows other causes. C Level Contact List One is the patronage of Gold, who lent them his prestige and pharmaceutical contacts in Europe and South America. Some went beyond the iron curtain: Gold's ties to the PCA gave Sigman access to laboratories in Cuba, China and the Soviet Union. Another cause is related by Sigman C Level Contact List himself: «Until 1978 Italy did not have a patent law. At that time, Italy was the world's largest supplier of raw materials for the pharmaceutical industry (...) When Italy implemented the Patent Law in 1978, Spain, without a patent regulation, came to occupy the place that Italy had up to that time. And C Level Contact List we were in Spain…». Sigman operated on the legal loopholes of a Europe that was unifying very slowly, as he would later do with the laboratories in China and the former
Eastern bloc. That practice links him, despite C Level Contact List his "non-business outlook," to one of the most deeply rooted practices of Argentine pharmaceutical capitalism. The capital that does not fear the void The Argentine pharmaceutical industry C Level Contact List developed almost wildly, before the rest of the local industry, in a state of almost constant C Level Contact List legal vacuum. At the end of the 19th century, European medicine distributors settled in the country and soon began to produce.
This is how some of the dynasties that still C Level Contact List control the market today began, such as Bagó or Roemmers. Under a minimal legal framework, the laboratories consolidated a dominant market position, which throughout the entire 20th C Level Contact List century they knew how to defend from every government attempt at regulation. C Level Contact List As late as 1992, and in the face of the cholera epidemic, which affected mainly the northwest of the country, an entity was created to regulate the production and distribution of medicines: the National