Reimport clearing tags from taggables table

[OccultScientist]

Hi,

I have a command that imports data from a site that has the following code:
if ($item->node->tags != "") { $article->tags = array_map('trim', $item->node->tags); } $article->save();

The first run creates the tags and taggable table entries fine.

If I re-run, the taggable data for that id is deleted.

I'm using the nwidart/laravel-modules package if that makes a difference.

Thanks in advance