Mexico grants legal protection to an iconic leather garment from Tamaulipas: The Cuera Tamaulipeca

The Cuera Tamaulipeca, the accepted garment of the bluish borderline authorities of Tamaulipas, has been legally recognized arsenic a merchandise linked exclusively to its portion of root done Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) status.

Granted by the Mexican Institute of Intellectual Property (IMPI), the Protected Geographical Indication protects the product’s name, Cuera Tamaulipeca, and establishes that it whitethorn lone beryllium utilized for garments made nether the method and root conditions registered astatine the IMPI.

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“The Cuera Tamaulipeca is not lone a enactment of creation crafted with accomplishment and patience; it is an emblem of the strong, noble, and hardworking quality of our people,” Tamaulipas Tourism Minister Benjamín Hernández Rodríguez said. 

The authoritative designation was the effect of a method process carried retired by the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas (UAT) to guarantee that producers met the criteria required by IMPI. These studies documented the humanities and taste nexus of the garment with the Tamaulipas highlands encompassing the municipalities of Tula and Ciudad Victoria, wherever the trade has its deepest roots and astir production. 

Here, artisans person been manufacturing the Cuera Tamaulipeca for implicit a period utilizing accepted methods. The overgarment is typically made from calfskin oregon deerskin, featuring airy leather prints and floral designs, on with agelong fringes connected the sleeves, back, and front.

Following the Protected Geographical Indication recognition, producers indispensable present usage the operation “Protected Geographical Indication Cuera Tamaulipeca” oregon the acronym “PGI” connected their garments to support the portion from misuse oregon imitation and to warrant buyers an archetypal piece. 

Furthermore, the IMPI volition enactment connected obtaining planetary designation of this Geographical Indication done the planetary commercialized treaties and agreements successful unit successful Mexico.

Hernández added that this ineligible extortion represents 1 measurement towards integrating the Cuera Tamaulipeca arsenic a cardinal awesome of tourism promotion campaigns astatine fairs, exhibitions and integer platforms, to showcase the quality, creativity and authenticity of Tamaulipas.

This is the archetypal clip a merchandise originating from Tamaulipas has received extortion nether the Geographical Indication designation. 

The PGI should not beryllium confused with the Origin Denomination (DO). While some admit a merchandise exclusive to a definite region, the DO recognizes the earthy and biology conditions of the country of root arsenic an indispensable information for the beingness of specified a product, portion the PG distinguishes a merchandise owed to its estimation and individuality successful the region. 

Some examples of products with denominations of root see tequila (Jalisco, Michoacán, Nayarit, Guanajuato and Tamaulipas) and talavera from Puebla, among others. 

 With reports from Milenio and Posta