The Dealer hears that the EU has secured full market access for frozen fries to the Colombian market following a six-year trade dispute.

This is hardly what you’d call ‘My God’ news, given the other serious issues that are holding the world to ransom at the moment.

Will the agreement even make the news in Colombia?

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Hardly.

But isn’t it depressing that it takes six years to resolve what you’d think would be a relatively minor issue around chips. Not at the WTO, it seems.

In fact, the WTO’s Multi-Party Interim Appeal Arbitration Arrangement was mobilised to settle this particular trade spat.

As a colleague commented: “I thought Mercosur was about micro-chips, not curry chips”.

The mind boggles.