Okaz: Saudi dates with Israeli stickers

In collaboration with its embassies in certain European countries, the Saudi foreign ministry started studying measures that can be taken according the international trade regulations against Israeli exporters who used illegally the phrase of "Saudi product" (Made in Saudo Arabia) to campaign for Israeli dates in European markets, according to a source at the Saudi ministry of agriculture who told the Saudi daily Okaz.

The source stressed that Israeli dates were found in certain European states with stickers on its containers "a Saudi produce in order to make use the good repute of the Saudi dates in international markets."

Saudi Arabia produces 870,000 tons of dates, representing 15% of the world total production. It exports 5% of the world's total dates trade production.