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The US says the World Trade Organization (WTO) Appellate Body has ruled in its favour in its challenge against India’s additional and extra-additional duties on wine, spirits and other agricultural and manufactured products.
The Appellate Body has reversed a panel’s finding that any import charge offsetting an internal tax need only ’serve the same function’ as the internal tax and need not be equivalent in amount to that internal tax, US Trade Representative (USTR) Susan C. Schwab announced Thursday.
India imposed extra duties on US imports in addition to and on top of its basic customs duty, resulting in combined duties on imports of alcoholic beverages (beer, wine and spirits) of up to 550 percent.
India argued that the duties were permitted because they simply offset certain internal taxes (such as value-added taxes).
In reversing the panel, the Appellate Body agreed with the US that any import charges aimed at offsetting internal taxes cannot result in a higher amount being charged to imports than to like domestic products.
‘This is an important decision for all WTO members, particularly at a time when they are negotiating tariff commitments,’ Schwab said.
‘The Appellate Body reversed a deeply flawed panel report and reaffirmed a fundamental WTO rule that Members cannot impose duties on imports that exceed their tariff commitments.’
In response to US concerns, during the dispute settlement proceedings, India announced it was withdrawing the additional duty on alcoholic beverages and modifying the extra-additional duty to provide a refund mechanism. This, it represented to the panel eliminated any discrimination against US imports.
But the US continues to have concerns about whether these measures have eliminated India’s abusive use of additional tariffs, particularly given India’s refusal to produce information to support its claims that the duties merely offset internal state-level taxes, Schwab’s office stated.
‘We continue to closely monitor the effect of both actions,’ it added.
The Appellate Body considered that the additional duty on imports of alcoholic beverages and the extra-additional duty on imports of alcoholic beverages and other products would not be justified, USTR said.
This was so as offsetting excise duties and other internal taxes on like domestic products insofar as the duties result in charges on imports that exceed those on like domestic products. Consequently, this would render both the additional duty and extra-additional duty inconsistent with India’s tariff commitments.
The Panel’s interpretation would have opened a Pandora’s box by inviting the widespread imposition of ‘additional’ tariffs in violation of WTO commitments, USTR said.
However, because of India’s refusal to provide information to the panel on its internal taxes and the panel’s failure to make the necessary factual findings, the Appellate Body was unable to conclude whether in this particular case India’s duties in fact exceeded the amount levied on domestic products, it said.
The Appellate Body’s report does, however, provide clear guidance that should help ensure that India does not impose either the additional duty or extra-additional duty to discriminate against US imports, USTR said.
‘We note that the European Communities recently requested consultations regarding new duties and taxes being levied by Indian state governments on imported liquors,’ it added
Source : Sindh Today
The country’s largest spirits manufacturer, the Vijay Mallya-led, United Spirits Ltd (USL) is planning a slew of wine launches from UK, France and South Africa. It is also planning to shift its winery from Hosepet to Bangalore.
The company is in the process of launching 10 Chapters from South Africa, Pink Elephant Rose from UK, Bouchard wines from France and Sacred Hill and Hunter Valley Wine from New Zealand. All the launches will take place before the year ends.
This spirit company is also increasing its production capacity and consolidating its wineries and distilleries in different regions. The Baramati facility will become fully operational by December. Grape crushing has already started in this capacity. It will be producing mainly Four Seasons Wines.
Wine facility in the south is likely to be shifted from Hospet to Bangalore by early next year. Currently the Bangalore facility produces grape spirit. The Hospet facility will be dedicated for producing IMFL brands.
USL is also planning to launch single malts, Dalmore and Jura, besides Whyte & Mackay blended Scotch whisky. John Barr scotch which is not so expensive is also slated to come to India. Jura may come in with offerings aged at 10 years and 16 years while Dalmore may have two variants, at 12 years and 21 years. Whyte & Mackay is likely to hit the market with three age variants of 13, 19 and 22 years.
The company is also planning to launch some wines from the Bouvet-Ladubay range in India. It has developed its Baramati facility with technical know how from Bouvet-Ladubay.
For more operations that are efficient, it is looking at expanding capacity, integrating backwards, packaging benefits. It is upgrading its technology to increase its throughput. In Karnataka facility five tetra machines have been installed. This will cut down cost of breakage, label etc.
The company also wants to take advantage of modern retail. It is in talks with Wal-mart, Spencer’s and Metro to have its product on their shelves in states like Karnataka where liquor norms are retail friendly.
USL is not deterred by state taxation policies. Company officials noted that either they decide to weather the storm and not be perturbed by it or they change their planning and distribution strategies after the states announces their policies.
Source : http://www.financialexpress.com
A good article by Steven Spurrier about Indian Market. click here.
Abstract : the ongoing international financial crisis could have a slowdown effect on the wine consumption rate in India, which is growing at 30% annually. Spurrier feels that India along with China and Korea has a new wine consumer market coming up, which is unlike the traditional markets like France. “The wine market in India is healthiest for expansion because people enjoy wine here and are opening to wine influence,” says Spurrier.
See on Eric Asimov’s blog :
I’m sad to report that David Lett, founder of the Eyrie Vineyards, which pioneered the production of fine pinot noir in Oregon, died last Thursday at his home in Dundee Oregon. He was 69 years old.
By Lisa Baertlein
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Wine cellars have been taking a hit from the global credit crisis and it isn’t because the owners of rare bottles are drinking more — it’s because they have been selling to raise cash.
The selling started with mortgage brokers and has moved to Wall Street as owners turn their collections of coveted vintages into liquid assets.
“People need money. Even richer people need money sometimes,” Vinfolio.com founder and Chief Executive Stephen Bachmann told Reuters on Monday.
In the last few weeks, private collectors submitted offers to sell $10 million worth of wine to Vinfolio, a San Francisco-based company that buys and sells wine online. Normally the company has about $6 million offered to it.
Among the wines that that recently have come into Vinfolio’s possession are a 6-liter Imperiale of 2003 Chateau Margaux that retails for almost $15,000 and a bottle of 1990 Romanee-Conti that lists for around $11,000.
One Aspen collector is looking to sell $750,000 worth of wine and another individual from the private equity world is offering up wine worth about $500,000 from his collection, he said.
“I think we’re seeing a culling of people’s cellars without necessarily a wholesale abandonment,” said Bachmann, whose company has a five-person team dedicated to buying wine from private cellars.
More Indians will consume wine in the next two years. Industry body, Associated Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Assocham), has estimated that the country’s wine consumption will nearly double to nine million litres from the current five million litres, by 2010. “India’s wine market is likely to grow at 25 per cent in the next two years due to rising consumption, not only among youngsters, but among women and the aged, as well” said Sajjan Jindal, Chamber President, Assocham.
Assocham has estimated that the Indian wine market stands at approximately five million litres in terms of volume and Rs 500 Crore in terms of value. Wine sales in India were 8,20,000 cases in 2007-08. Major cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Pune accounted for 80 per cent of the wine demand, said the chamber.
According to a report in The Economic Times, rising disposable incomes, the teeming under-30 (years) population, Western world influence and measures adopted by the government aimed at weaning the population off stronger spirits have added to the wine industry’s growth.
Source : Hospitality Biz India
Didier Dagueneau, an iconoclastic Loire Valley winemaker whose Pouilly-Fumés displayed a purity and subtlety far beyond most other sauvignon blanc wines, died Wednesday in a plane crash. He died when the ultralight plane he was piloting crashed after takeoff in the Dordogne region of France, said his New York importer, Joe Dressner. Dagueneau was 52 and lived in St.-Andelain, a village in the Pouilly-Fumé region on the eastern end of the Loire Valley. Working with sauvignon blanc, a grape that made crowd-pleasing, thirst-quenching Pouilly-Fumés and Sancerres but was rarely taken seriously, Dagueneau sought to show its potential for greatness. “He influenced the entire region,” said Jacqueline Friedrich, a wine writer who is working on a revision of her 1996 book, “A Wine and Food Guide to the Loire.” “I’ve been tasting a lot of Sancerres, and I’m absolutely amazed by the evolution and how much better they’ve become. That was absolutely his doing.”
The European Union filed a new complaint at theWorld Trade Organization against Indian taxes on wine and spirits a year after dropping a similar complaint, saying India is still keeping European alcohol from its market.
India’s government agreed in July 2007 to scrap extra duties on imports of liquor that the bloc said cut demand for whiskey and rum. India trimmed duties on imported spirits to 150 percent, from as high as 550 percent.
The EU is seeking “clarifications from India on the way tax legislation and other measures on market access for wine and spirits are applied in states such as Goa, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu,” the European Commission said in a statement from Brussels. “These states are among India’s largest markets for wines and spirits.”
The U.S. and the EU each filed complaints at the Geneva- based WTO against the customs duties on products by companies including Diageo Plc or Pernod-Ricard SA and brands such as Jack Daniel’s or Famous Grouse. WTO judges ruled in June that the U.S. had failed to prove the Indian duties discriminated against products such as Brown-Forman Corp.’s Jack Daniel’s whiskey.
The Indian market for spirits is one of the largest in the world and amounted to about 130 million nine-liter (2.4 gallons) cases last year, according to EU industry. EU exports of spirits to India amounted to about 57 million euros ($83 million) last year out of a total 7 billion euros exported to more than 150 countries, said the commission, the EU’s trade authority.
Internal Taxes
Some Indian states impose “discriminatory internal taxation” that hurts importers, the commission said. Maharashtra, for instance, imposes a special fee on imported wines and exempts locally produced wines and spirits from excise duty. Goa adds an import and “label-recording” fee to the cost of imported wines and spirits.
“In both cases, internal taxes are applied only to imported wines and spirits, or at a much higher rate for imports than domestic goods,” the commission said. “This is a breach of the WTO’s national treatment principle, which requires that WTO members treat imports and domestic goods the same.”
Maharashtra and Goa together represent half of India’s wine and spirits consumption, according to the European Spirits Organization, which welcomed the EU’s decision today to reopen the case.
`Significant Progress’
“The European spirits industry fully acknowledges the significant progress India has made on market access for wines and spirits,” said Jamie Fortescue, director general of the organization. “It is therefore disappointing that trade barriers have now emerged at state level, and we hope that the WTO consultations lead to a mutually agreed solution. All we are asking for is a level playing field.”
Today’s request for consultations is the first step in the WTO case. Under the trade arbiter’s rules, the two governments must now hold talks for at least two months in an effort to resolve the dispute. If consultations fail, the EU can ask WTO judges to rule.
Calls to Indian Trade Minister Kamal Nath’s office seeking comment about the new complaint weren’t immediately returned. Last week, Nath said India would review its duties on wines and spirits.
The EU’s initial complaint in November 2006 followed five years of unsuccessful diplomatic efforts to resolve the dispute as well as a 10-month probe that the bloc said was marked by an “unprecedented” lack of cooperation by India.
Backed by the U.S. and Canada, the EU won a similar WTO case against Japanese taxes on imported spirits in 1997.
Source : Bloomberg.
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Good reading.
Mapovino is a wine-mapping website incorporating GoogleMaps to showcase geographically distinct wines and the stories behind these wines.
It’ an exciting project and I’m looking forward to see this site online.
As I said a few days ago, I visited China for a lightning visit to 4 days.
I have already made a trip to China in January - February. This time I was able to visit a little more winery to understand a little better organization of the wine industry in the midst of the empire.
Obviously I will write in the coming weeks briefing notes. To get here already wait a few representative photos of the immense achievements in this country.
This first photo is the view that it has since the Chateau Changyu (joint venture with Castel).
This photo is the one we see when we turn slightly to the right. Incredible!
In the background you can see the sea
And finally this last photo is the facade of the building Changyu.
Wine Pad is the iPhone app for wine geeks. Once you install Wine Pad, you will always have your wine journal with you; right on your iPhone. WinePad goes beyond the traditional paper notebook full of wine tasting notes.
With Wine Pad you can:
- Record your thoughts about the wines you try
- Rate the wines you try
- Take a picture of the wine label for future reference
- Look up wines that you have tried in the past
Wine Pad will also:
- Remember the wines that you really liked
- Let you browse your favorite wines by varietal, type, pairing and more
- Help you further your personal wine experience
Version 2.0.0 of Wine Pad includes:
- ways to record: wine name, vintage, price, rating, color, clarity, aroma, taste and personal comments
- lists of category descriptions such as type, varietal, winery, region and pairing
- a search feature to easily navigate long lists of tasting notes
Foster’s CEO Ian Johnston sat down with his chairman, David Crawford, and CFO Angus Crawford to explain to Business Spectator’s Alan Kohler, Robert Gottliebsen and Stephen Bartholomeusz why the group wants to shift its focus back to value market share, in the continually changing wine and beer market.
While he admits that joint beer and wine marketing and distribution was“inappropriate at the customer end of the model“, he believes the wine business is not beyond redemption and reveals that as its Crown brand recovers, plans are afoot to give the original green Victoria Bitter, a boost.
To see the full article, click here.
Source : Business Spectator
A new wine terminal will be constructed in St Petersburg. Read this article. We follew this project…..
Do you know the use of neuroscience in marketing ? How understand all about this topic ? Visit the great blog of RIchard Shaffer. An excellent article on neuroscience in marketing and wine marketing in particular. An interview about Roger Dooley author of The Neuromarketing blog.
The launch of 3G Iphone was the High-Tech event of the summer in France. People queued up to buy it on the Champs Elysees.
For my part, I bought the Iphone last week. In addition to the Apple design and functions, Apple to add applications downloaded from iTunes.
Well …. I found one on wine. “Wine Snob” is therefore an application Iphone to manage the tasting notes, searches the wines tasted and find tasting notes depending on where you are using the GPS location.
In short, a wonderful tool. And only for 2.39 Euros !!
I would like to indicate that the company 9mmedia are not customers of our society and we have received no request for this setting before.
In March, I see this post in Techcrunch Blog (one of the most important blog in Internet companies).
After a short visit to the Amazon site today, there is still nothing. It must be said that the announcement was greeted coldly on the site, by peoples accusing Amazon of wanting to sell wine to teens.
Amazon is to starting selling wine from its site to US customers.
According to FT.com, Amazon is currently looking to recruit a senior wine buyer who will be responsible for “the acquisition of a massive new product selection.”
Online alcohol sales have been a difficult market in the United States due to the multitude of laws in relation to online alcohol sales in different states. The market though is somewhat easier to enter today than during the first web boom, with the US Supreme Court having ruled that state governments may not prohibit residents from ordering directly from out-of-state wineries in 2005.
Amazon invested $30 million into Wineshopper.com in 1999. The site lasted one year. Sales of wine in the United States totaled $30 billion in 2007.
To be continued ….
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