The arrival of Royal Gala apples from the European markets such as France, Italy, Serbia, Bosnia, and Turkey caused the prices of apples to start coming down harshly in the UAE market. Traders and major retailers in the UAE are still stockpiling Royal Gala-Chile, assuming that price will increase, but this did not occur. The top six traders in UAE store approximately 100K boxes (1.8M kgs) of Royal Gala-Chile, which could lead to huge losses.