War of the gnomes

Plastic, gaudy and above all cheap, armies of garden gnomes huddle at Polish roadsides near the German border waiting to be snapped up by bargain-hunting tourists from the west.
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A trade war has been raging between gnome manufacturers on both sides of the border since the early 1990s...

No, not because it's April 1, but a perfectly serious item sent to me apropos of this post. As the report is from a while back, an update on the state of the war would be useful. See also here. (Thanks: RB.)