Representatives from New Zealand and Australia meet in Geneva this week for the final oral submissions on the long-running dispute over apple access.
The 80-year row over access to Australia of apples grown in New Zealand is being heard by a specialist panel from the World Trade Organisation.
In 2007, Biosecurity Australia agreed to end its ban on New Zealand apples, imposed because of the risk of introducing the bacterial disease fireblight.
Pipfruit New Zealand decided to pressure the Government to take a case to the WTO as it viewed the subsequent quarantine restrictions as too severe.
Pipfruit New Zealand chair Ian Palmer says New Zealand the case has been thoroughly put together and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has worked hard on the case.
