WASHINGTON — First District Congressman Tracey Mann and U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, joined 27 members of Congress on a letter to President Biden demanding that his administration waive import duties on fertilizer.
At a time when inflation is at the highest it has been in 41 years, along with record fertilizer prices, the Biden Administration imposed duties on imports of Moroccan phosphate fertilizer and is in the process of imposing duties on UAN fertilizer from long-time suppliers Trinidad and Tobago.
The letter to the president states that farmers and ag producers are having to make decisions on what to plant based on fertilizer prices rather than typical market fundamentals. That coupled with inflation at the highest it has been in 41 years and a Consumer Price Index for food up 14.6%, the rising cost of fertilizer will increase food insecurity and geopolitical tension domestically and abroad.
The letter goes on to say that fertilizer is critical to national security and national defense. Its affordability is also critical to wrangling out-of-control inflation.
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