Source: Jacqui Fatka, FARM PROGRESS, 12/2/21


“Farmers shouldn’t have to pay for disputes between American fertilizer companies and foreign producers,” says National Corn Growers Association President Chris Edgington. But that’s what he says will continue if companies don’t drop their petitions following actions by the Department of Commerce and International Trade Commission upholding tariffs on imports of phosphate and urea ammonium nitrate solutions. The U.S. Department of Commerce recommended in February 2021 that the ITC implement tariffs over 19% on imported fertilizers from Morocco after the Mosaic Company, which manufactures fertilizers used in the U.S. and abroad...

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