The Commerce Department is sharply cutting its duty on Moroccan phosphate fertilizer products to just 2.12%, spurring optimism that imports will resume, providing American farmers with more supply options and better prices.
Some of the most influential farm group banded together earlier this month to ask the Commerce Department to reduce or eliminate the duty on key imports of phosphate fertilizers from Morocco and now a bipartisan roster of lawmakers is doing the same.
A key Moroccan fertilizer company, bolstered by rising calls from farmers and lawmakers for more supplies of imported phosphate products, sees a pathway back to the U.S. market and potentially in time for spring application season.