1) I never thought I’d see the day: Lemons from #Argentina, banned since 2001, are now available at Wegmans.pic.twitter.com/SMC7MKIUaF
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2) The milestone is not only significant for beach bums thirsting for refreshing lemonade. The U.S. ban was a perpetual diplomatic irritant, exacerbated by President Trump’s protectionist measures against #Argentina’s lucrative biodiesel exports.
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#Argentina is the world’s top lemon producer, and the U.S. is the world’s top lemon consumer,@cohenluc has reported. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-argentina-lemons-idUSKCN1252DA …Show this thread -
4) The lemon industry is vital to
#Argentina’s poor northwest, where lifting the U.S. ban, imposed out of concerns that Argentine pests would infest California citrus groves, has been a top priority.Show this thread -
5) Lemons on U.S. supermarket shelves signal a political win for President
@mauriciomacri, whose initial failure to secure market access, despite a warm Oval Office meeting in April 2017, damaged his image as a dealmaker cashing in on#Argentina’s international reengagement.Show this thread -
6) But the concentrated economic impacts will not move the needle for
#Argentina’s struggling economy. Renewed market access, granted last August, permits delivery to East Coast ports of 30,000 tons of lemons per year, a sliver of the 1.4 million tons the country grows.Show this thread
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