Recently, according to the news from the China Chamber of Commerce for Importers and Exporters of Metals, Minerals and Chemicals, since the outbreak of the epidemic, countries around the world pay special attention to the issue of food production safety, the global demand for chemical fertilizers continues to rise. Under the influence of many factors such as the continuous rise of international commodity prices, the global fertilizer market price has shown a continuous rising trend since the end of 2020. China is the world's main producer and exporter of nitrogen fertilizer and phosphate fertilizer. Influenced by the increasing overseas demand and the rising prices of major chemical fertilizer varieties, the export quantity and average unit price of chemical fertilizer in China rose rapidly from January to April this year, which can be said that the quantity and price of chemical fertilizer rose together.

From January to April, China's fertilizer export volume was 9.18 million tons, up 23.6% year on year. The export value was $2.53 billion, up 60.1% year on year; The average unit price of exports was $276 / ton, up 30.2% year on year.

In terms of import, the main chemical fertilizer varieties imported by China are potassium chloride and NPK ternary compound fertilizer. With the support of domestic potassium fertilizer and the national fertilizer reserve system, the price of imported chemical fertilizer has basically remained stable in the case of the increase in quantity. From January to April this year, China imported 4.02 million tons of chemical fertilizers, up 11.7% year on year. Imports amounted to US $1.024 billion, down 6.7% year on year.