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In the pharmaceutical supply chain, a trading partner is any business entity involved in the transfer of ownership as products move through the system. The best description is a party from whom direct ownership is transferred (for example, a manufacturer, repackager, wholesale distributor, dispenser, or 3PL). This captures the business-to-business relationships where title to the product changes hands as it moves from production to dispensing.

A retailer selling to consumers is an endpoint customer, not the primary partner responsible for ownership transfer in the chain. A regulatory agency is not involved in the transactional transfer of product ownership, and a consumer is the final user rather than a primary trading partner in the supply chain.