diff --git a/addons/product/views/product_views.xml b/addons/product/views/product_views.xml
index 655e10e926c..685f1f32a56 100644
--- a/addons/product/views/product_views.xml
+++ b/addons/product/views/product_views.xml
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@
                             <p>All general settings about this product are managed on <button name="open_product_template" type="object" string="the product template" class="oe_link"/></p>
                         </group>
                         <group string="Attributes">
-                            <field name="attribute_value_ids" widget="many2many_tags"/>
+                            <field name="attribute_value_ids" widget="many2many_tags" readonly="1"/>
                         </group>
                         <group>
                             <group name="codes" string="Codes">