GI woe

  • 14/08/2003

  • Down To Earth

Under the Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (trips) Agreement of the World Trade Organization (wto), champagne is identified with the particular wine-producing region of France. Scotch whisky is similarly recognised as being purely Scottish. But products such as basmati rice, Darjeeling tea, Kolhapuri slippers and Kanchipuram silk saris