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Pharma is no longer a great choice for PR. Several of the various federal advantages to locating there have expired


It still is relatively better to do pharma in PR than many other industries in PR, since it has an established workforce and a bunch of facilities, and there are PR-specific tax breaks under IRC 933 (just no longer 936). There's established pharma, and sometimes line extensions; not sure if anyone would put a new pharma startup here.

Microsoft lost their tax case so they're GTFO after >10 years, though; that probably also discourages similar IP-embodied manufacturing in pharma.


True. If you have to locate in PR, might as well be pharma. And there are no reasons to move existing lines.




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