# Industry Ministry issues decision to increase export fee for nitrogen fertilisers to EGP 500 per tonne for one year – Dailynewsegypt

> Egypt's Minister of Trade and Industry raised the planned export fee on nitrogen fertilizers to EGP 500 per tonne from EGP 125 for one year. The decision responds to producers failing to deliver their domestic agricultural quotas, with only 618,500 t delivered out of 1.35 million t allocated from March to June.

- Date: 2018-09-18 · published 2018-09-18T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: policy · region Egypt · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/62978-industry-ministry-issues-decision-to-increase-export-fee-for-nitrogen
- Commodities: [Urea](https://feedsoft.ai/c/UREA.md)

## Why it matters

Restricting exports to surplus volumes reduces the nitrogen available to international buyers and supports global urea prices. The move follows a similar Egyptian duty increase announced days earlier.

## Read by commodity

- UREA: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| UREA | 2021-03-01 | [Egypt: Ministry of Trade and Industry increased export duties on Nitrogen fertilizers - Global Trade Alert](https://feedsoft.ai/events/48052-egypt-ministry-of-trade-and-industry-increased-export-duties-on-nitrogen.md) | +4.3% | +4.3% |
| UREA | 2021-06-03 | [Egypt: Ministry of Trade and Industry amends export duty on Nitrogen fertilizers - Global Trade Alert](https://feedsoft.ai/events/46504-egypt-ministry-of-trade-and-industry-amends-export-duty-on-nitrogen-fertilizers.md) | +3.6% | +5.0% |
| UREA | 2021-03-09 | [Higher fees on fertiliser exports  - Egypt - Al-Ahram Weekly - Ahram Online](https://feedsoft.ai/events/48047-higher-fees-on-fertiliser-exports-egypt-al-ahram-weekly-ahram-online.md) | +0.9% | -0.9% |
| UREA | 2023-05-09 | [Urea has increased off the news of a possible increase in China's fertiliser export quota \| Farm Weekly \| WA](https://feedsoft.ai/events/36258-urea-has-increased-off-the-news-of-a-possible-increase-in-china-s-fertiliser.md) | +4.3% | -18.9% |
| UREA | 2023-09-08 | [China slows fertiliser exports, raising industry concerns in India \| Reuters](https://feedsoft.ai/events/34015-china-slows-fertiliser-exports-raising-industry-concerns-in-india-reuters.md) | -0.6% | -4.9% |

## Sources

- dailynewsegypt.com: https://dailynewsegypt.com/2018/09/18/industry-ministry-issues-decision-to-increase-export-fee-for-nitrogen-fertilisers-to-egp-500-per-tonne-for-one-year/

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