Mr. Steve Verheul at the International Trade Committee

On November 7th, 2013. See this statement in context.

November 7th, 2013 / 9:25 a.m.

Chief Trade Negotiator, Canada-European Union, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade

Well, thank you.

This was very much an EU ask. It comes out of the EU domestic considerations that they have. GIs are very important in their market. They're not in ours. We don't use them; we use trademarks, so we—

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