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The US Department of Commerce preliminarily found that phosphate fertilizer imports from Morocco and Russia benefit from countervailable subsidies. Calculated rates were 23.46% for OCP in Morocco, and 20.94%, 72.5% and 32.92% for Russian producers, with cash deposits to begin within days.
Final determinations are due by February 8, 2021.
Preliminary duties of up to 72.5% sharply raise the cost of imported phosphate into the US, which should lift domestic DAP and phosphate prices and tighten import flows.
investors.mosaicco.comNov 24, 2020
thefederalregister.orgCommerce Department, International Trade AdministrationNov 23, 2020
trade.govNov 24, 2020Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
After 193 past bullish trade events, DAP moved a median +0.4% over 5 sessions (54% higher; middle half -0.3% to +1.8%), and +1.9% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
Commerce's preliminary CVD rates (21-72.5%) on Moroccan and Russian phosphate, announced Nov 23 with cash deposits starting within days, restrict US import supply and likely drove DAP higher in the window.
