Relief for Aussie summerfruit

Canadian consumers will soon, for the first time, be enjoying Australian peaches, nectarines, plums and apricots, following successful negotiations between the Australian and Canadian Governments, allowing the import of Australian summerfruit for the 2007–08 season.
This could become a lucrative market for our summerfruit industry and Australia could start exporting stone fruit varieties during the coming harvest.
This new export market is a significant win for Australia’s growers who have had to deal with the loss of access to the Taiwanese market, and the Australian summerfruit industry had been actively pursuing new market access conditions for Canada.
Another bonus, for the stonefruit industry is they will not go under Canada’s previous quarantine conditions, which required methyl bromide fumigation and cold disinfestation treatments for pests of quarantine concern to Canada, with Biosecurity Australia provided data to Canadian quarantine authorities that showed that cold disinfestation was not necessary to manage the quarantine risks.
Summerfruit is grown in all states and territories except the Northern Territory.