"It bothers me a bit, the whole freedom thing": In the citrus sector, warnings are being issued about the effect of the Egyptian orange, which

Egypt, which has established itself as one of the global leaders in orange production, ships its fruit all over the world, but has Argentina as one of its best and most unexpected customers. From sending its first boxes there in 2021, it only took four years to become the main supplier and, favored by the import opening, it increased its sales by about 14 times since then. But while the “Egyptian Fresh Orange”, or the Moroccan ones, are gaining their place in the concentrating markets, there is now an entire productive structure that has more fruit than before and, while competing in a shrinking internal market, it also fails to place its production abroad. One of the challenges faced by Javier Milei's government was to contain food inflation through import opening. And the case of Egyptian oranges is quite illustrative: they are more expensive than the Argentine ones, they pressure wholesale prices downward, they add more supply to a "cooled" demand, and they only manage to ...