# China's recent trade moves create outsize problems for everyone else | PIIE

> PIIE commentary says China ordered firms to stop selling fertilizer abroad, a policy that began last summer and forced farmers elsewhere to leave fields fallow. The authors argue that China's trade moves on fertilizer, steel and pork add to global disruption alongside Russia's blockade.

- Date: 2022-04-25 · published 2022-04-25T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: policy · region China · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/41766-china-s-recent-trade-moves-create-outsize-problems-for-everyone-else-piie
- Commodities: [Urea](https://feedsoft.ai/c/UREA.md), [DAP](https://feedsoft.ai/c/DAP.md), [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md)

## Why it matters

Reduced Chinese fertilizer exports keep global nutrient supply tight, which raises input costs and may lower future crop output and feed grain supply.

## Read by commodity

- DAP: bullish ▲
- CORN: bullish ▲
- UREA: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| UREA | 2026-09-18 | [China’s 3.3 million tonne urea quota and FOB price floors reshape global nitrogen trade for Q4](https://feedsoft.ai/events/17413-china-s-3-3-million-tonne-urea-quota-and-fob-price-floors-reshape-global.md) | -0.5% | -5.1% |
| UREA | 2023-11-17 | [China fertilizer group calls for export cuts to stabilize prices](https://feedsoft.ai/events/33090-china-fertilizer-group-calls-for-export-cuts-to-stabilize-prices.md) | +0.7% | -8.2% |
| UREA | 2024-04-24 | [China Reverses Course on Urea Exports - Genesis Fertilizers](https://feedsoft.ai/events/30662-china-reverses-course-on-urea-exports-genesis-fertilizers.md) | -0.7% | -6.4% |
| UREA | 2024-11-11 | [China’s record low urea exports support nitrogen fertilizers outlook: Fertiglobe](https://feedsoft.ai/events/27319-china-s-record-low-urea-exports-support-nitrogen-fertilizers-outlook-fertiglobe.md) | +0.5% | +1.3% |
| UREA | 2022-03-01 | [House Ag Committee Begins Farm Bill Work With Eye on Fertilizer Prices, China Trade War Effects](https://feedsoft.ai/events/42255-house-ag-committee-begins-farm-bill-work-with-eye-on-fertilizer-prices-china.md) | +19.2% | +18.9% |
| DAP | 2023-11-17 | [China fertilizer group calls for export cuts to stabilize prices](https://feedsoft.ai/events/33090-china-fertilizer-group-calls-for-export-cuts-to-stabilize-prices.md) | +0.9% | +3.9% |
| DAP | 2025-08-31 | [China to Reimpose Specialty Fertilizer Export Curbs from Oct, India Braces for Price Surge: SFIA – Outlook Business](https://feedsoft.ai/events/23257-china-to-reimpose-specialty-fertilizer-export-curbs-from-oct-india-braces-for.md) | -0.6% | -3.8% |
| DAP | 2021-10-01 | [China expected to stop phosphate exports,  food production prices set to rise - ABC News](https://feedsoft.ai/events/4698-china-expected-to-stop-phosphate-exports-food-production-prices-set-to-rise-abc.md) | +4.6% | +4.6% |

## Sources

- piie.com: https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economics/2022/chinas-recent-trade-moves-create-outsize-problems-everyone-else

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