{"id":578697,"date":"2026-09-20T09:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T06:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=578697"},"modified":"2026-09-20T09:44:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T06:44:52","slug":"value-of-belarusian-potash-supplies-to-china-rises-2-2-fold-in-january-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/value-of-belarusian-potash-supplies-to-china-rises-2-2-fold-in-january-august","title":{"rendered":"Value Of Belarusian Potash Supplies To China Rises 2.2-Fold In January-August"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belarusian potash supplies to China continued to grow in value in August. This is indicated by Chinese customs statistics for the first eight months of the year.<\/p>\n<p>In January-August, China imported nearly 2.58 million tonnes of Belarusian potassium chloride (commodity code 31042090), 74.9% more than in the same period last year. In value terms, supplies increased 2.2-fold to $903.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>In August this year, China imported 278,100 tonnes of potassium chloride from Belarus worth $93.85 million. Imports in volume terms increased 5.6-fold compared with the same month last year, while in value terms they rose 5.2-fold.<\/p>\n<p>The average import price from Belarus in January-August 2026 was nearly $350 per tonne, compared with about $279 per tonne last year. At the same time, the average import price in August 2026 was about $337 per tonne, compared with nearly $360 per tonne a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>In total, China imported 11.42 million tonnes of potassium chloride in January-August, 51% more than in the same period last year. In value terms, imports increased 84.6% to $4.03 billion.<\/p>\n<p>In August, China purchased 1.35 million tonnes of potassium chloride, 79.1% more than a year earlier. In value terms, imports increased 85.8% to $475.54 million.<\/p>\n<p>Imports of all potash fertilizers into China (commodity code 3104) increased 82% in value terms in August to $482.4 million, while over the first eight months they rose 84% to $4.12 billion. Russia remained the largest supplier of potash fertilizers over the eight-month period. Imports from Russia increased 62% to $1.35 billion, from Laos 2.1-fold to $759.7 million, from Canada 75.1% to $678.55 million, and from Israel 62.5% to $190.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>According to Chinese customs statistics, the total value of imports of goods from Belarus increased 38.2% over the first eight months to $1.435 billion. Potash fertilizers accounted for 63% of China&#8217;s imports from Belarus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarusian potash supplies to China continued to grow in value in August. This is indicated by Chinese customs statistics for the first eight months of the year. In January-August, China imported nearly 2.58 million tonnes of Belarusian potassium chloride (commodity code 31042090), 74.9% more than in the same period last year. In value terms, supplies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":497526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6aaf80e865a68.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Value Of Belarusian Potash Supplies To China Rises 2.2-Fold In January-August"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143126],"tags":[143118],"class_list":["post-578697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-business","tag-belarus"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578698,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578697\/revisions\/578698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}