After several months of negotiations, India's annual potash fertilizer contract was finally announced on April 4, 2023.

Xinhua news in Beijing, January 4 (reporters Xu Ke, Dong Xue), Foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a regular press conference that Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) has enabled regional countries to deepen cooperation and increase efficiency, which is a major victory for multilateralism and free trade. China will work with all parties to actively participate in the construction of RCEP mechanism and make positive contributions to regional prosperity and world economic

On 9 Nov., Argentine grain port workers have staged a surprise strike because of poor wage negotiations and other factors, delaying exports by one of the world's largest exporters, the labor union representing the country's grain port workers expressed on Monday.

In autumn, the fertilizer market will start gradually, and the domestic demand of fertilizer will be released. It is expected that fertilizer prices in later period will keep its upward trend, but there is limited room to rise.

The Ministry of Commerce will continue to improve services for foreign-funded enterprises and foreign investors, expand the level of market opening, and strive to release a new catalogue of industries encouraging foreign investment as soon as possible, said Ministry spokesman Gao Feng at a regular press conference on Sept. 17.

The National day, golden week, is coming! It is the shipping season indeed at present, and shipping companies are continuing to increase their capacity to meet the shipping demand in this golden period, but the performance of the market hasn't matched their expectations well.

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA) 's monthly report for July, China's refinery operation rate rose year-on-year in the second quarter of this year, and crude oil processing volume hit a record high in June.In the US, refinery utilisation fell sharply.China overtook the US as the world's largest refining centre in the second quarter as us crude processing fell to a 27-year low.

On August 21, the Security Commission office of the State Council and the Ministry of Emergency Management held a video scheduling meeting for major risk screening of ammonium nitrate production enterprises and port storage yard to mobilize the deployment of ammonium nitrate and other explosive chemical products for the second round of special inspection.

The person in charge of the Foreign Investment Department of the Ministry of Commerce introduced the national absorption of foreign investments from January to July, 2020.

Due to the weak demand of flat glass and glass containers, the most important end-users, market participants expected that the global consumption of soda ash would decline in 2020.

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According to the website of the Ministry of Emergency Management, on July 31, the Office of the Security Commission of the State Council held a meeting on improving the safety of chemical parks and hazardous chemical enterprises.The meeting called for all regions to draw lessons from accidents caused by illegal production and trading of hazardous chemicals, and earnestly organize and carry out special rectification of illegal "small chemical industries".Comprehensively investigate and

Importers have complained that thousands of containers bound for Afghanistan are stuck at the port of Karachi because of their slow scanning for goods passing by.

On July 17, the Ministry of Commerce announced the preliminary decision of anti-dumping investigation against imports of n-propanol from the United States.

As societies in Europe and North America reopened and activities increased, ports in these regions have encountered increasing traffic congestion.

Jordan Phosphate Minerals Corporation (JPMC) relied on 30 percent of its capacity to increase production and exports of phosphate, phosphate fertilizer and aluminum fluoride in the first half of 2020, Petra News agency reported on July 5.Output in the first six months reached 383 tons, and exports were about 4.429 million yuan, up 165.97 percent and 10.12 percent year on year, respectively.

This week, it was reported on June, 29 that BP released its Statistical Review of World Energy 2020, on which covered energy data by 2019 and provided a comprehensive picture of major energy supply and demand at the country level.

Many European countries will gradually loosen border controls from Monday, especially the movement of people between the EU and Schengen area countries, to help restart the economy.