Blog by Pandora Industries

In the early 1990s, a Bronx VA endocrinologist went looking for the reason a venomous lizard could go months without eating. What he found eventually became Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and a class of drugs now reshaping diabetes care, obesity treatment, pharmaceutical balance sheets, and this year, for the first time, the price a patient in India pays for a monthly injection. This piece pulls that whole arc together, including the India-specific numbers, and ends with a plain f

Key Takeaways The Indian government extended full (nil) customs duty exemption on approximately 40 key petrochemical products from June 30 to July 15, 2026, via Notification No. 22/2026-Customs. The measure addresses ongoing supply chain risks from the West Asia conflict, which has affected shipping routes and raised freight costs for imports. Affected products include core feedstocks and intermediates like methanol, anhydrous ammonia, styrene, vinyl chloride monomer (VCM), m