This volume focuses on the procedures for determining the geographical indicator labels for globally traded goods in the Asia-Pacific region. The book is also available as Open Access.

Part I. Framing the Debate: The Still Contested Role of Geographical Indications in the Global Economy: 1. Geographical indications between trade, development, culture, and marketing: framing a fair(er) system of protection in the global economy? Irene Calboli; 2. From geography to history: geographical indications and the reputational link Dev S. Gangjee; 3. The limited promise of geographical indications for farmers in developing countries Justin Hughes; 4. Rethinking the work of geographical indications in Asia: addressing hidden geographies of gendered labour Rosemary J. Coombe and S. Ali Malik; 5. A look at the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement: a missed opportunity? Daniel Gervais; Part II. Geographical Indications at the Crossroads of International and National Trade: 6. Geographical indications and mega-regional trade agreements and negotiations Susy Frankel; 7. Geographical indications as property: European Union association agreements and investor state provisions Anselm Kamperman Sanders; 8. How would geographical indications from Asia fare in Europe? Christopher Heath; 9. Looking beyond the known story: how the prehistory of protection of geographical indications in the Americas provides an alternate approach Christine Haight Farley; 10. European Union-Singapore free trade agreement: a new chapter for geographical indications in Singapore Susanna H. S. Leong; Part III. The Promise and Problems of Geographical Indications for Local and Rural Development: 11. Sunshine in a bottle? Geographical indications, the Australian wine industry, and the promise of rural development Peter Drahos; 12. Legal protection of geographical indications as a means to foster social and economic development in Malaysia Tay Pek San; 13. The use of geographical indications in Vietnam: a promising tool for socio-economic development? Barbara Pick, Delphine Marie-Vivien and Dong Bui Kim; 14. 'Vanity GIs': India's legislation on geographical indications and the missing regulatory framework Yogesh Pai and Tania Singla; 15. Protection of geographical indications in Taiwan: turning a legal conundrum into a policy tool for development Szu-Yuan Wan; 16. A unique type of cocktail: protection of geographical indications in China Haiyan Zheng; 17. The potentials, and the current challenges, of geographical indications protection in Sri Lanka Naazima Kamardeen; Part IV. The Unsettled Relationship between Geographical Indications, Traditional Knowledge, and Cultural Heritage: 18. The Geographical Indications Act 2013: protection of traditional knowledge in Bangladesh with special reference to Jamdani Mahua Zahur; 19. From chianti to kimchi: geographical indications, intangible cultural heritage, and their unsettled relationship with cultural diversity Tomer Broud; 20. Geographical indications, heritage and decentralization policies: the case of Indonesia Christoph Antons; 21. When geographical indications meet intangible cultural heritage: the new Japanese act on geographical indications Steven Van Uystel.