Pernod Ricard and Bacardi’s battle over HAVANA CLUB trademark erupts again after call for renewal U-turn

A bipartisan congressional delegation has called on the Trump Administration to reverse a US Office of Foreign Assets Control decision to grant a licence allowing Cubaexport to renew the HAVANA CLUB trademark registration in the United States. Slamming the licence as “misguided”, the group has catapulted the long-running dispute between Pernod Ricard and Bacardi back into the political arena.