date:Aug 02, 2018
lusion of inappropriate geographical indications (GIs) in the Mercosur-EU free trade agreement.
Allowing GIs for these cheese names would clearly constitute de facto non-tariff barriers to trade and, as such, be entirely incompatible with the existing World Trade Organization (WTO) commitments of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, CCFN stressed in a letter to the Mercosur nations last November.
IDFA will continue to work to eliminate inappropriate protections for common cheese names that