{"id":15204,"date":"2026-04-29T08:34:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/us-no-place-called-feta-in-eu\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T08:34:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:34:20","slug":"us-no-place-called-feta-in-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/us-no-place-called-feta-in-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"US: No place called \u2018Feta\u2019 in EU"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Arguing that there is no place called \u201cFeta\u201d in Greece, or in the entire European Union, the US administration is attempting to refute EU legislation on products with protected designation of origin (PDO) and protected geographical indication (PGI).<\/p>\n

In a post on Tuesday on the account maintained on the X platform, the US Trade Representative, currently Jamieson Greer, who is responsible for formulating and recommending trade policy to the US president, as well as for conducting trade negotiations with other countries, mentions the case of fetas protection as one of the \u201c10 craziest foreign trade barriers facing American exporters.\u201d<\/p>\n

The post reads: \u201cWithin the European Union, the term \u2018feta\u2019 can only be used for cheese produced in Greece, since the EU claims that certain cheese terms are connected to specific places in Europe. However, there is no specific place named \u2018Feta\u2019 in Europe! And the EU forces other countries to follow this same nonsensical rule. This locks American producers out of key markets merely for using certain cheese terms,\u201d Greer wrote on X.<\/p>\n

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10\/10: Within the European Union, the term \u201cfeta\u201d can only be used for cheese produced in Greece, since the EU claims that certain cheese terms are connected to specific places in Europe.<\/p>\n

However, there is no specific place named \u201cFeta\u201d in Europe! And the EU forces other\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 United States Trade Representative (@USTradeRep) April 27, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For years, Wisconsin has produced cheese marketed as \u201cfeta\u201d in the US and other third countries, but is not allowed to be sold as such in the EU, as well as in those other third countries that are bound by agreements with the EU to comply with the legislation on PDO and PGI products.<\/p>\n

Feta\u2019s case, however, has not been included in the 534 pages of this year\u2019s report, \u201c2026 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers of the President of the United States on the Trade Agreements Program,\u201d although it strongly criticizes the EU and some member-states, including Greece, both for the legislation on PDO and PGI products and for the recent legislation on the registration of geographical indications and on industrial and handicraft products.<\/p>\n

The report, however, expresses complaints about obstacles posed by EU and Greek legislation, and the practice followed in Greece on a number of other issues, such as participation in state procurement tenders, clawback on medicines and medical devices, subsidies for agricultural products, and the provision of legal services by American lawyers.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n