The ‘Crowd-Out Effect’ of GI Provisions in EU FTAs: Cheeses Exported to South Korea

Wenting Cheng ()
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Wenting Cheng: The Australian National University

Chapter Chapter 13 in The European Union and the Evolving Architectures of International Economic Agreements, 2023, pp 227-248 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter considers a specific issue of the impact of the European Union (‘EU’)’s Free Trade Agreements (‘FTAs’) on third countries, with a focus on geographical indications (‘GIs’). It assesses the hypothesis of the crowd-out effect—when an EU GI-protected product listed in the EU FTAs is the same as product names exported from athird country, the EU producer will exclude third-country exporters from using the same name. The chapter first explains the conditions and limitations of the crowd-out effect, then uses EU-South Korea FTA’s GI list which includes 19 cheese names to examine to what extent the crowd-out effect exists in a real world case. It concludes with key findings, future research directions, and the need for a systematic solution to the crowd-out effect.

Keywords: Geographical indications; FTA; TRIPS; Crowd-out effect; Norm collisions; MFN (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-2329-8_13

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