Dickens especially emphasizes the fruits of trade: almonds, Spanish onions and oranges (in winter, no less).

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Congress has only ever stepped in to ban one kind of futures trade in the past: onions.

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The goods concerned-long-stem onions, shiitake mushrooms, and tatami rushes-accounted for less than 0.2 per cent of bilateral trade.

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