Asia-pacific regulators meet to grow international wine trade

Pacific Rim officials and industry representatives met in Ottawa, Canada to
streamline import-export requirements and reduce costs for governments and winemakers.
The Winemakers Federation of Australia (WFA) were amongst more than 60 wine regulators
and wine industry representatives from 14 nations who gathered at the Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation (APEC) Wine Regulatory Forum’s (WRF) 6th Annual Technical Meeting on
“Winemaking Practices and International Trade” to share good regulatory practices on wine
certification, laboratory analysis and winemaking practices in the important trade region.