The Russian Fertilizer Producers Association (RFPA) has proposed replacing quotas for fertilizer exports with licensing not limited by quotas, according to an Interfax report on June 28, citing RFPA President Andrey Guryev. The proposal is to be sent to the Industry and Trade Ministry soon, Guryev said in a press statement.
The RFPA also plans to ask the Russian government to allocate additional quotas this autumn because “producers, for reasons beyond their control, could not use quotas in the amount of 550,000 mt provided by the government.”
According to Guryev, Russian farmers by the end of June have already purchased 70% of the fertilizer they are expected to buy in 2023 (5.4 million mt in 100% nutrient equivalent). They are now buying for autumn planting.
In late May, the Russian government signed a decree extending its system of export quotas on nitrogen fertilizers and certain other fertilizer products from June 1 through Nov. 30, 2023 (GM June 2, p. 1). The total export quota authorized for the period was more than 16.3 million mt, according to the government’s press service.
The government had also increased the fertilizer export quota effective from Jan. 1 to May 31, 2023, for urea, ammonium nitrate, NPK fertilizers, and MAP by almost 2 million mt from the previously approved 12.6 million mt. According to the government’s press service, the measure will allow fertilizer producers to export unclaimed balances of finished fertilizers.