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#858760 - 13/04/2010 13:10 NZ gains WTO approval to export apples to Australia - maybe?
Sir BoabTree Meteorological Motor Mouth Registered: 7/02/2007 Loc: Townsville Dry Tropics	The news article contained in the link has not yet been confirmed by WTO or Australian Government sources and may be a beatup by NZ fruit growers. But i'm still cranky that they could even attempt to overturn the ban when they still haven't eradicated the disease which casued the ban to be put in place in the first place. In a move that won't make many apple/pear growers in Australia happy the WTO has overturned a long standing (1909?) ban on the importation of apples into Australia. http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/201004/s2870997.htm The ban was put in place to proctect Australia's apple industry from Fireblight which was accidently imported into NZ with apple seedlings from the USA. This combined with China attempting to import vast quantities of apples into Australia could be the death blow to yet another of Australia's fruit crops by flooding the market with cheap imports of low quality fruit. _________________________ Rain YTD 1235mm May 1mm Teh WZ Spullin Knig - Dyslexics Untie Just because you are offended by something I post doesn't always make you right.
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#858770 - 13/04/2010 15:07 Re: NZ gains WTO approval to export apples to Australia - maybe? [Re: Sir BoabTree]
ant Meteorological Motor Mouth Registered: 5/10/2002 Loc: Overlooking ACT at 848m	Taht would be a very bad thing for apple growers (mother is one-such). In recent years, we've seen a huge demand grow as Canberrans realise that tree-ripened low-spray fruit tastes 100% better than the tough, weird, juice-less things they get in supermarkets. We don't even need to advertise any more, people come in droves to buy from the farm. But having to deal with fire blight, nasty. And chinese apples, words fail me. Love their garlic... NOT.
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#876379 - 10/08/2010 23:43 Re: NZ gains WTO approval to export apples to Australia - maybe? [Re: ant]
Sir BoabTree Meteorological Motor Mouth Registered: 7/02/2007 Loc: Townsville Dry Tropics	Kiwis have won another round but Australia is fighting back. http://www.news.com.au/business/shell-be...i-1225903296567 The WTO can order what they bloody well like but if the apples don't pass OUR inspections then they can go jump in a vat of canker and fire blight for all their law passing. Of course we have been accused of making the process so expensive that they can't be imported them in the first place, apparently. I wouldn't be baking on them being allowed in just yet though. Quaranteen Inspector - so apples from NZ hey? How far away was the nearest orchard that had fire blight from the orchard that these where grown in? Oh less than 100 kilometres you say? Sorry not allowed in. _________________________ Rain YTD 1235mm May 1mm Teh WZ Spullin Knig - Dyslexics Untie Just because you are offended by something I post doesn't always make you right.
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#1032399 - 19/11/2011 16:56 Re: NZ gains WTO approval to export apples to Australia - maybe? [Re: Sir BoabTree]
Miketrees Cloud Gazer Registered: 22/10/2011 Loc: WA	Some of our apple varieties that were bred here will probably have no natural resistance to Fireblight.Its not something we were looking for when breeding apples. Add to that the fact that we are never going to be able to use the antibiotic sprays that some other countries allow makes us sitting ducks for that disease. And of course once the price is driven down the economics of fighting yet another disease will make apple growing a non profit professional. Don't think you can trust the labeling laws to guide you either. Having said all that, we are just as likely to get fireblight from imported cherries anyway
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#1051977 - 4/01/2012 23:49 Re: NZ gains WTO approval to export apples to Australia - maybe? [Re: Miketrees]
dlcat1 Weather Freak Registered: 31/01/2011 Loc: Melbourne (inner nth), Victori...	I'm swinging both ways on this one. Seems convenient to overlook we've had fire-blight on hawthorns in Melbourne for some (unsure how many) years. If you can prove that the restrictions you want to enforce are genuinely there to protect health, hygiene, the environment or a few others I can't remember and not just a industry protection measure/tariff by another name, then the WTO can't stop you. Unfortunately Australia could not demonstrate that and hence were told the ban had to go. If strict hygiene is followed then there shouldn't be a problem, however I reckon money and time being what they are, sooner or later someone will slip up. My bigger issue is importing fresh fruit from overseas. That seems a real waste to me. If public attitudes about that and eating whats in season and local changed...
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#1053823 - 9/01/2012 23:02 Re: NZ gains WTO approval to export apples to Australia - maybe? [Re: dlcat1]
Sir BoabTree Meteorological Motor Mouth Registered: 7/02/2007 Loc: Townsville Dry Tropics	But it still won't stop con merchants buying up 12 month old cold stored chinese apples and importing them into Australia via NZ as an NZ product. They already do it with a wide range of other canned products why not apples or other "fresh" fruit? _________________________ Rain YTD 1235mm May 1mm Teh WZ Spullin Knig - Dyslexics Untie Just because you are offended by something I post doesn't always make you right.
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