Jordan's agriculture minister said in an interview Sunday that there had been a drastic reduction in the import of fruits and vegetables from Israel, the result of an effort by authorities to prevent the import of agricultural products "from the Israeli settlements."
The minister said that staff from his office visited Israel on occasion, in an effort to track down the origins of agricultural products exported to Jordan. Jordan now has a law that requires merchants to tag produce that comes from Israel, and sales of such produce have plummeted in recent months. With that, he said that Jordan could not prevent the import of goods from Israel, because the two countries had signed a peace treaty, and Jordan observed all the requirements of the World Trade Organization, which prohibits signatories to WTO treaties from boycotts and protectionism.