# Buy Now or Pay More: DAP Supply Crunch Led by China and Morocco in June 2025

> Global DAP demand is expanding in June 2025 as China and Morocco ramp up exports and importers in Asia, Europe and the Americas accelerate purchases. Chinese FOB Qingdao prices rose, port congestion increased at Shanghai-Ningbo and Qingdao, and early European buying is tied to anticipated EU levies on Russian fertilizers.

- Date: 2025-06-27 · published 2025-06-27T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: trade · region Global · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/24536-buy-now-or-pay-more-dap-supply-crunch-led-by-china-and-morocco-in-june-2025
- Commodities: [DAP](https://feedsoft.ai/c/DAP.md)

## Why it matters

Front-loaded buying and tight Chinese port supply are pushing DAP prices higher and tightening availability into the second half of the year. This raises phosphate input costs for feed-grain producers.

## Read by commodity

- DAP: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DAP | 2021-01-28 | [Price hike in MAP and DAP as global supply squeezed by trade disputes \| The Land \| NSW](https://feedsoft.ai/events/4058-price-hike-in-map-and-dap-as-global-supply-squeezed-by-trade-disputes-the-land.md) | +31.4% | +28.0% |
| DAP | 2025-02-24 | [February 2025: German DAP Market Strengthened by Supply Adjustments](https://feedsoft.ai/events/7454-february-2025-german-dap-market-strengthened-by-supply-adjustments.md) | +2.1% | +2.3% |
| DAP | 2022-10-05 | [Phosphate Exports in Morocco Rose by A Record 68% in 2022](https://feedsoft.ai/events/39464-phosphate-exports-in-morocco-rose-by-a-record-68-in-2022.md) | -1.7% | -6.2% |
| DAP | 2020-06-29 | [United States launches countervailing duty investigation on imported phosphate fertilizers from Morocco and Russia-China urea, Adblue urea, DEF urea supplier-STARCO CHEM](https://feedsoft.ai/events/52430-united-states-launches-countervailing-duty-investigation-on-imported-phosphate.md) | +4.8% | +9.3% |
| DAP | 2026-06-08 | [India purchases 200,000 tons of Moroccan phosphate fertilizer, with concentrated arrivals in June and July. - ChemNet](https://feedsoft.ai/events/19134-india-purchases-200-000-tons-of-moroccan-phosphate-fertilizer-with-concentrated.md) | 0.0% | -4.2% |

## Sources

- chemanalyst.com: https://www.chemanalyst.com/NewsAndDeals/NewsDetails/buy-now-or-pay-more-dap-supply-crunch-led-by-china-and-morocco-in-june-2025-37611

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