The world customs organization approved the OIV proposal and now wine in 2 to 10 liters container are not anymore evaluated as unpackaged wine
“A very important decision for wine industry as well as for consumers”. With this words the general director of OIV, Organizzazione Internazionale del Vino, Federico Castellucci, embrace the WCO decision to review customs definitions regarding unpackaged wine, to not consider anymore 2 or 10 liters container.
The new nomenclature, explained Castellucci, will allow to increase market transparency and obtain more clarity and precision in statistic data collection on this type of product. Unpackaged wine export, remind OIV, growth a lot during the past years and in 2012 reached 37 millions hectoliters, around 40% of the global wine market. Coming from this situation the request to recognize the real unpackaged wine from the wine sell by 2 to 10 liters containers, in other words, "bag in box" .
