International Issues
The DISCUS Office of International Issues and Trade seeks to promote and protect the spirits industry’s interests in multilateral, regional and bilateral trade agreements and to monitor and address wide-ranging regulatory developments that affect worldwide exports of U.S.-produced distilled spirits.
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Free Trade Agreements
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DISCUS strongly supports the U.S. government’s efforts to negotiate comprehensive, 21st-century free trade agreements through the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). DISCUS is working closely with the U.S. spirits industry, U.S. negotiators, and overseas partners to ensure that these agreements achieve significant new market access for U.S. spirits exporters.
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World Trade Organization
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DISCUS is a strong proponent of the international rules-based trading system and supports continued multilateral efforts to liberalize and facilitate trade in distilled spirits.
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2013 PROMOTIONAL EVENTS
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Distilled Spirits Council to Host American Spirits Promotions along American Whiskey Trail and Abroad
DISCUS will host American Spirits seminars and tastings of super premium American whiskeys and other American spirits for importers, restaurant and nightclub owners, managers, bartenders, spirits buyers and media in select foreign markets in 2013. In addition, a delegation of journalists from various international publications will visit the American Whiskey Trail. The events, which will celebrate the taste, style and sophistication of American distilled spirits, are summarized below. These activities are being undertaken in connection with the Council’s participation in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Market Access Program (MAP).
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DISCUS will host a delegation of journalists from various international publications for tour of the American Whiskey Trail on May 6-11, 2013.
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Additional overseas promotions will be announced at a later date.
For additional information about these events, please contact Frank Coleman at fcoleman@discus.org or 202-682-8840.
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Distilled Spirits Trade Data
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Links and Resources
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