Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity Thanks U.S. Congress Members for Opposing Fertilizer Tariffs

On March 17, 2022, a bipartisan group of 86 members of Congress wrote to ITC Chairman Jason Kearns and urged him to reconsider countervailing duties on phosphate imports from Morocco and to suspend the process of imposing new duties on urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) fertilizer from Trinidad and Tobago. See the attached letter.

In part, the Members of Congress wrote, “We urge you to reconsider the duties placed on phosphate fertilizer products imported from Morocco and suspend the current process to impose new duties on urea ammonium nitrate fertilizer from Trinidad and Tobago… At the end of February, all fertilizer prices were near record high levels. Eliminating these duties on fertilizer imports provides the most immediate opportunity for a near-term, partial remedy to the high costs of fertilizer facing U.S. farmers…”

The Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity applauds these Members of Congress for standing with American farmers and working to relieve and protect them from the detrimental impacts of phosphate and UAN tariffs.