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Dairy groups rally around trade issues

March 6, 2015

The U.S. Dairy Export Council, an active member of the international Consortium for Common Food Names, in February briefed U.S. and EU negotiators in Brussels on deep-set concerns with the EU’s current approach to protections for geographical indications (GIs).


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Trade group asks White House to tread carefully on common food name flap

The Consortium for Common Food Names says it is critical that European producers not be given monopoly rights to highly contentious geographical indications and “traditional terms,” should a U.S.-EU free trade agreement move forward.
December 20, 2012

CCFN and the other signatories asserted that the issues pertaining to the use of common names, legitimate geographical indications and traditional terms must be dealt with in an entirely separate undertaking in order to ensure that a mutually agreeable outcome is found on those contentious topics.


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