Scott Tribe - Proud Ketchup Chip Nationalist @stribeprogblog@mstdn.ca
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Looks like Trump is trying to find an alternate supplier to Canada's potash. Trump wants to put massive tariffs on potash to spur the US growth in it: problem is there's really no viable source of potash in the US.

So, maybe he tries to get it from a more "friendly" country in Belarus? Key problem for this plan: the main export port for Belarus potash is in Lithuania & the EU has not lifted an embargo on it so none of it will get out that way.

I suppose Belarus could ask Putin to take it and ship it out of a Russian port, but travel/shipping costs would make it more expensive.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

US to End Sanctions on Belarus Potash, Belta Says Citing Envoy

The US will remove sanctions on Belarusian potash fertilizers, the key source of foreign-currency revenue for the Russia-aligned nation before Western restrictions stifled their flow.

www.bloomberg.com · Bloomberg.com

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