Brian Beary in Washington contributed to this article
The fight was over the updating of a 1958 international treaty called the Lisbon Agreement for the International Registration of Appellations of Origin. At a conference in Geneva, on 11-21 May, US officials voiced their dismay that they along with their supporters, which included Argentina, Australia, Chile, Israel, Japan, South Korea, and Uruguay, were unable to stop the EU and its allies from revising the Lisbon agreement to their liking. The updated…