EU CHILE WINE SPIRITS FREE TRADE AGREEMENT EU COUNCIL OF MINISTERS
February 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
OBSTACLES have been thrown into the path of imports into Chile of wines made outside the European Union (EU) and which are sold using controversial and contested geographical indications such as sherry, Bordeaux and port. These have come in changes agreed by the EU Council of Ministers to a 2002 EU-Chile agreement on trading wines. In future, where a wine is imported from outside the EU or Chile, it can only use such protected European or Chilean terms if these are "legally recognised" in the exporting country. Furthermore, their use ...
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