The US government is complaining that the EU is protecting under the “Protected Destination of Origin” (PDO) the name of the traditional Greek cheese “Feta”.
The ignorant US Trade Representative is considering as absurd that the name is protected even though there is not a place or a village called “Feta”.
This regulation apparently runs against the flourishing of American exporters.
On a tweet, the United States Trade Representative posted:
10/10: Within the European Union, the term “feta” can only be used for cheese produced in Greece, since the EU claims that certain cheese terms are connected to specific places in Europe.
However, there is no specific place named “Feta” in Europe! And the EU forces other countries to follow this same nonsensical rule. This locks American producers out of key markets merely for using certain cheese terms.
A community response, reminded the US Trade Representative that
10/10: Within the European Union, the term “feta” can only be used for cheese produced in Greece, since the EU claims that certain cheese terms are connected to specific places in Europe.
However, there is no specific place named “Feta” in Europe! And the EU forces other…
— United States Trade Representative (@USTradeRep) April 27, 2026
Does the US want to sell and export its plastic yellow cheese in tubes as “Feta”? They can paint it white and name it WhACh “White American Cheese.”
Why don’t Americans understand that no one wants their cheese??? We don’t want it in Canada and we live just north of them. We don’t want their milk (hormones, antibiotics) or their cheese except for cheese slices. We hear the same complaint in Canada too.
IGNORANT trade person .
Perfect description.!!
Apart from steak I have never found any food in America really edible,
When I lived in the UK, before Feta got DoC designation, most of the Feta sold was from Denmark and was made with cows milk. It wasn’t bad but nothing like traditional Greek Feta. Here on Crete Mizithra is more popular.