Emmenthal cheese, the holey one (no holes in the Japan-Switzerland free trade agreement)

Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Details have now been published by the Swiss government of the new free trade agreement between Japan and Switzerland that goes into effect 1 September 2009. High on the list of special items for which no tax import duty will be charged is  “gift” fruit coming to Switzerland from Japan. The fruit will need to be larger and specially packaged, generally for sale of individual pieces of fruit, and sold at a price well above the market average fruit prices. Swiss cheeses will be given preferential import duty treatment, starting with 600 tons of cheese the first year and climbing to a ceiling of 1,000 tons in 11 years. This doesn’t include 23 tons of fondue, also given preferential duty treatment.

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