Citrus growers in the NSW Riverina are worried about being squeezed out of the US market.
This year, Chile is sending one and a half million cartons of fruit to the US, three times more than its 2009 exports.
Frank Battistel, from Riverina Citrus, says this will now have a major impact on volumes sent from his region.
"It'll probably destroy our premium market, which the US has been in the past and we're definitely going to end up with a lot lesser return and less volumes going into that country," he says.