The COVID-19 virus has brought new challenges to the global food and agricultural market. One challenge that is not new: efforts to restrict your right to use common food names.
– Bobby Koch, Wine Institute
Why can Europeans sell their common name cheeses in Wisconsin if we can’t sell ours in the EU?
Washington, D.C. – The Consortium for Common Food Names (CCFN) applauds the activation of groundbreaking protections for common food names as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) enters into force today. These protections will more effectively combat the European Union’s (EU) efforts to seize exclusive use of common food and wine terms in the critical Mexican […]Read More »
In its Phase One deal with the U.S., China made critical commitments to lay out indicators of generic status and mandate greater clarity regarding the scope of protection for multi-term geographical indications (GIs). CCFN recently submitted comments to the Chinese government to help ensure it fulfills these commitments by advising on the development of its […]Read More »
CCFN is urging the U.S. government to take full advantage of the opportunity presented by upcoming trade negotiations with Kenya to build upon the advances made in USMCA, contain the EU’s aggressive misuse of geographical indications (GIs) to erect market access barriers and establish a precedent in sub-Saharan African regarding safeguards for the free use […]Read More »
The U.S. Trade Representative’s (USTR) annual Special 301 Report on global intellectual property protection and enforcement included a (dis)honorable mention of the European Union’s (EU) ongoing abuse of geographical indications (GIs) protections to prevent the trade of common name products. Prior to the report, CCFN filed extensive comments to USTR outlining the EU’s government-driven effort […]Read More »
— American Meat InstituteWe fully support efforts by the Consortium to protect the right to continue marketing… products using the common names by which they’ve always been known.
The EU is aggressively working to restrict your ability to use common food names. Your support is critical to counter these actions.
“CCFN and its members need to stay vigilant so the interests of producers of products with common names will continue to have access to global markets.” Read more
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