except climate
Care to elaborate?
prices
It seems to be cheaper than anything west and north of it, except the Baltics. Going by the prices listed here.
Short search for "black pepper carcinogenicity" doesn't turn up anything except a few studies on rats and mice, and one of them shows no adverse effect. Do you have anything better?
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30462-1/fulltext