Local growers are celebrating after winning their fight against the relaxation of anti-dumping measures.
They have been lobbying against a proposed relaxation of the measures, which threatened the local canning industry.
Cabinet had agreed in principle to change the rules which would have resulted in anti-dumping duties only after damage to local industry was proven, with the duties removed after an Automatic Termination Period (ATP).
Dumping is illegal under World Trade Organisation agreements.
In an open letter to Tukituki MP Craig Foss, Hawke's Bay Fruitgrowers Association president Lesley Wilson said if the new regime came into place growers would remove trees and jobs would be lost.