diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 6c8819b56b..dfcc431360 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ git-annex (8.20200815) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * Limit retrying of failed transfers when forward progress is being made
     to 5, to avoid some unusual edge cases where too much retrying could
     result in far more data transfer than makes sense.
+  * Retry transfers to exporttree=yes remotes same as for other remotes.
 
  -- Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>  Fri, 14 Aug 2020 14:57:45 -0400
 
diff --git a/Command/Export.hs b/Command/Export.hs
index d1fde25d1e..db52609a7f 100644
--- a/Command/Export.hs
+++ b/Command/Export.hs
@@ -281,9 +281,7 @@ performExport r db ek af contentsha loc allfilledvar = do
 	sent <- tryNonAsync $ case ek of
 		AnnexKey k -> ifM (inAnnex k)
 			( notifyTransfer Upload af $
-				-- Using noRetry here because interrupted
-				-- exports cannot be resumed.
-				upload (uuid r) k af noRetry $ \pm -> do
+				upload (uuid r) k af stdRetry $ \pm -> do
 					let rollback = void $
 						performUnexport r db [ek] loc
 					sendAnnex k rollback $ \f ->
diff --git a/doc/todo/tolerate_intermittent_errors_upon___34__export__34_____40__and_probably_copy__41___to_S3.mdwn b/doc/todo/tolerate_intermittent_errors_upon___34__export__34_____40__and_probably_copy__41___to_S3.mdwn
index bddcb7f19f..949fe95714 100644
--- a/doc/todo/tolerate_intermittent_errors_upon___34__export__34_____40__and_probably_copy__41___to_S3.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/tolerate_intermittent_errors_upon___34__export__34_____40__and_probably_copy__41___to_S3.mdwn
@@ -4,3 +4,5 @@ If git-annex already does that, please pardon my noise and close this TODO.
 
 [[!meta author=yoh]]
 [[!tag projects/datalad]]
+
+[[fixed|done]] --[[Joey]]
diff --git a/doc/todo/tolerate_intermittent_errors_upon___34__export__34_____40__and_probably_copy__41___to_S3/comment_2_6b655d30bf07518f33ec42cdeabef4ef._comment b/doc/todo/tolerate_intermittent_errors_upon___34__export__34_____40__and_probably_copy__41___to_S3/comment_2_6b655d30bf07518f33ec42cdeabef4ef._comment
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ff9f82d315
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/todo/tolerate_intermittent_errors_upon___34__export__34_____40__and_probably_copy__41___to_S3/comment_2_6b655d30bf07518f33ec42cdeabef4ef._comment
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 2"""
+ date="2020-09-04T17:00:11Z"
+ content="""
+What about the other side of export, import? Looks to me that does not
+retry either.
+"""]]