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  Drug Imports From Canada Set to Be Eased
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Description House and Senate Republicans reached an agreement that would allow Americans to bring a 90-day supply of prescription medications back across the border from Canada.

Shopping for drugs in Canada has become popular with U.S. consumers. The cost of many popular brand-name prescription drugs can be 30 percent to 80 percent lower in Canada than in the U.S. because of government price controls, surveys by The Associated Press and others have shown.

The agreement, reached Thursday as part of a Homeland Security spending bill that is moving through Congress, would prohibit U.S. Customs agents from seizing up to 90-day supplies of prescribed medicines being brought into the U.S. from Canada.

"This really breaks the dam, and it shows that it's only a matter of time before we pass a full-blown reimportation bill," Sen. David Vitter, R-La., said of the agreement, which came together on the same day that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced it plans to slash prices for generic prescriptions.
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