Poland wants U.S. apple access

Dan Wheat/Capital Press Jim Bair, president of U.S. Apple Association, said Poland is seeking apple access to the U.S. Bair spoke to the Washington industry gathering for the first time, Dec. 1.

KENNEWICK, Wash. — Labor, the H-2A guestworker program, longshoremen slowing exports and Polish apples potentially headed to the U.S. were among many topics on the first day of the annual meeting of Washington’s tree fruit industry.

U.S. regulators are under “tremendous pressure to open the U.S. to Poland apples and it sounds like it will happen late next year,” Jim Bair, new president of the U.S. Apple Association, Vienna, Va., said in his first appearance at the annual meeting.

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