If successful, the U.S.-EU talks would likely result in each side accepting the other’s auto-safety regulations.
Supporters of a pact call it an “economic NATO” to mirror the military alliance, solidifying U.S.-European ties at a time of geopolitical threats from Russia and economic challenges from China. Photo: Matthew Dalton/The Wall Street JournalĮconomists say the trade deal would lift a broad range of industries, from auto makers to chemical companies. food industry and posing challenges for an ambitious trade deal. But the proposal is facing stiff resistance from the U.S. The European Union is pushing to reserve names like feta and other traditionally produced foods for products made only in Europe. The way of production, the kind of milk-it’s totally different.” This is not right,” said Manos Kassalias, general manager of the Kalavryta Cooperative, which has made feta for decades. brand from Kraft Foods Group Inc., isn’t made of the milk of sheep and goats grazing on wild grasses of Greek mountain pastures but from cow’s milk in Wisconsin. The problem is American companies also make products that use many of the names. It is one of dozens of regional foods and drinks whose names the EU insists on reserving, in the face of stiff resistance from the U.S. In the EU, only cheese made from the milk of sheep and goats in swaths of mainland Greece and the island of Lesbos can be called feta. and the European Union are nearing a deal to eliminate tariffs on at least 97% of goods traded across the Atlantic, officials close to the talks say, building momentum for what would be the most ambitious trade pact in more than 20 years.īut a host of disputes still stand in the way of an overall agreement, including an unlikely stumbling block: the salty white cheese called feta made for centuries in the rugged mountains of Greece. KALAVRYTA, Greece-Negotiators meeting this week to forge a sweeping trade agreement between the U.S. Salty Issue in U.S.-European Trade Talks: Feta Cheese Feta cheese is one of dozens of regional foods whose names the EU insists on reserving