KOBE PRODUCERS WELCOME EU GI DEAL – BUT WARN OF POTENTIAL SCARCITY IF EXPORTS RISE
August 1st, 2017
BEEF producers in the European Union (EU) could face restrictions on using famous beef names such as Kobe and Tajima to market their home-grown beef once an agreed-in-principle EU-Japan free trade agreement is implemented. The restrictions would come through reciprocally agreed rules within the deal to protect both jurisdictions’ registered geographical indication (GI) products.
As part of the agreement negotiations, in July, Japan gave the European Commission a list of 39 GI products it wanted protected in EU markets from producers using their names, when ...
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