|
|
Article: United States and EU sign wine trade agreement.
- Article from:
- Food & Drink Weekly
- Article date:
- March 20, 2006
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2006 Informa Economics, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
The United States and the European Union signed into law March 10 a new wine trade agreement that ends more than two decades of haggling over a dispute about winemaking techniques and the use of geographical names such as port, Chablis, and sherry. The agreement, which was finalized in September 2005, allows United States winemakers to export on a long-term basis wines made from various techniques such as cold filtering and wood chip aging that are not allowed in the EU.
"Like a good wine this agreement took time," said U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman. "But by helping to establish predictable conditions for bilateral wine trade it is clearly a win-win ...