WASHINGTON, — First District Congressman Tracey Mann and U.S. Senator Jerry Moran led 83 of their colleagues in sending a letter to the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) requesting it address the strain on the fertilizer supply by eliminating duties on phosphate fertilizer products imported from Morocco, and suspending the process to impose new duties on urea ammonium fertilizer from Trinidad and Tobago.
“Farmers are deciding what to plant not on market fundamentals, but on the cost of fertilizer,” said Mann said. “The conditions surrounding on-farm expenses in the United States have dramatically changed since the U.S. International Trade Commission’s determination to impose duties on fertilizer from Morocco and Trinidad and Tobago.”
The members write that 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 before the end of the 2022 planting season.