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10 Jul, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Sometimes it's hard to figure out what exactly just happened in trade. An EU agri handbook shows that India indeed did not allow all EU apples to enter.
Among those it allowed to enter, though: UK apples.
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Source: pflanzengesundheit.julius-kuehn.de/dokumente/uplo…
However, this is a great example of the devil in the detail - and what trade officials do a lot of the time. There are myriads of "little technical" problems that might make your life difficult. Strange technical restrictions (still not sure what this one actually is) &
limited entry points etc etc etc. Talking about these and getting the issues resolved is really important. Of course then it's also important for market participants to know what the issue was that was resolved.
btw this looks like what happened:

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