According to data revealed by Brussels, the crisis that the Spanish citrus sector is going through is not at all being caused by the import of South African fruit, but has more to do with the serious internal problems that the sector is suffering. The opinion of the growers, which the parties have happily assumed, about the overflow of the market, the viability of the safeguard clause or the lack of aid, clashes head-on with the data handled by the European Union.