US embassy cable - 05KINGSTON2382

UNCLAS KINGSTON 002382 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR WHA/CAR (WBENT), EB/IPE (SFWILSON) 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: EAGR, ECON, ETRD, KIPR, JM, WTO 
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS IN 
WTO AGRICULTURE NEGOTIATIONS 
 
REF: SECSTATE 180474 
 
(U) Econoff delivered reftel demarche on October 20 to Alison 
Stone, Acting Senior Director of Foreign Trade, Ministry of 
Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade.  Stone told Econoff that 
the GOJ would "almost certainly agree that there is no place 
for geographical indications in Agriculture Committee 
negotiations," and that the TRIPS Council is the appropriate 
forum for further discussion of this issue.  Stone was aware 
that the EU may use the debate as a bargaining chip in 
discussions on agriculture.  Coincidentally, Stone was to 
meet later that day with Ambassador Ransford Smith, the GOJ 
Permanent Representative in Geneva, and stated that she would 
deliver our position and talking points both to Ambassador 
Smith and to the GOJ Mission in Geneva by fax. 
TIGHE