It is not just here. We were in England six weeks ago. The van driver and I had quite a conversation. We were enroute from Gatway Airport to Dover to catch a cruise. The route was through Kent. He said that the county of Kent used to be the apple orchard for all of England. But the EU set up some rules about import and export of apples which drove the English orchards out of business.
Now the people in England have to have second grade apples from France or none at all.