Not disagreeing with you, but protecting local products seems (to me at least) the main motivation behind the UK restrictions, specifically. The US restrictions seem more aimed at blocking pests. But here, too, there are bits that I don;t understand (doesn’t take much, I;ll admit). I get why Hawaii is so strict about letting things in, but why also about letting things out? I once nicely ripened some chickoos there (aka, among other names, chicos), to have as a treat oin my return, but they were confiscated at the airport and thrown into the trash under my very eyes.
On the other hand I have my cocaine-coconut story.
