Brussels, 10/01/2002 (Agence Europe) - The French Socialist MEP Harlem Désir has welcomed the World Trade Organisation ruling that the US law preventing Pernod-Ricard from exercising its right to the "Havana Club" rum trademark in the United States is discriminatory and contravenes the rule of the "most favoured nation" (see EUROPE of 4 January, p.8).
In a press release in which he notes that the WTO appeals body had confirmed the European Union's appeal in support of the French company's...