You were able to barter with piglins because there'll be a button but now it only shows [open] so you need to drop gold ingots to barter. After you dropped one, the button will appear as [barter] and then you'll be able to barter but after that the button will be back to [open] and so on.
MCPE-80097
Can't barter with piglins unless dropping gold ingots
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