Items Tagged with 'Morocco'

Fertilizer producers Mosaic and Simplot said this week they support keeping countervailing duties on Moroccan and Russian phosphate fertilizer in the five-year review now underway.

The Trump administration is weighing temporarily suspending countervailing duties applied to Moroccan and Russian phosphate, according to people familiar with the discussions.

As a five-year review of countervailing duties on phosphate fertilizer from Russia and Morocco gets underway, one of the largest U.S. producers says it is time to lift the tariffs.

The International Trade Commission is mounting a mandatory five-year review of countervailing duties applied to Moroccan and Russian phosphate fertilizers, against a backdrop of sky-high prices and trade threats.

Deputy Agriculture Secretary Stephen Vaden says Mosaic and Nutrien have a “duopoly” in U.S. fertilizer markets and suggests the administration could take steps to address such concentration. But analysts say market concentration is by no means the main driver of high fertilizer prices.

The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA), the Almond Board of California, and the California Department of Food and Agriculture will be hosting a trade delegation from Morocco June 22-28.

USDA releases its latest forecast for farm income today, even as lawmakers discuss a possible package of assistance for producers.

A bipartisan group of senators and House members is urging the International Trade Commission to consider farmer voices as it decides what to do about Moroccan phosphate imports.