For 51 new products, Geographical Indications (GI) tags were issued by the Chennai registry.
They included a German beer (Muncener Bier), Italian veined blue cheese (gorgonzola), a plant resin (Chios Mastiha) from Greece and a variety of seed cones (zatecky chmel) from Czech Republic.
Tamil Nadu has earned GI tags for five products.
They are Kanyakumari clove, Thanjavur Netti works, Karuppur Kalamkari paintings and wood carvings of Arumbavur and Kallakurichi.