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Kiwifruits are native to China but it was New Zealand that perfected the golden variety found on supermarket shelves today.
It costs New Zealand farmers a sizable amount of money to license the SunGold kiwifruit and sell it across the world.
New Zealand even has a kiwifruit regulator that makes decisions on all national issues pertaining to the little furry fruit and at the moment there is one brewing between local growers, the owner of the SunGold copyright and China.
Central to the story is a man named Haoyu Gao, who is accused of smuggling cuttings of the prized SunGold to China's Sichuan province, enabling local farmers to cultivate several orchards of counterfeit plants.
Now New Zealand needs to decide how to deal with China — SunGold kiwifruit lover, customer, and "pirate". https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-02/china-new-zealand-kiwifruit-trade-impacts-/100129232