If I sell or If I am selling

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If I sell or If I am selling

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Which one should I use in the following sentence?

If I sell it/am selling it to an American customer, the minimum order quantity (MOQ) will be five tons.

I think using simple present tense makes it sounds like the MOQ changes to five tons after the deal is already made, which makes no sense, but I am not sure.
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Re: If I sell or If I am selling

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Both are grammatical with no significant semantic difference.
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