British producers of fertilisers could face the prospect of export duties being imposed after the UK leaves the European Union, if no free-trade agreement is reached. Current EU duties on solid fertilisers from outside the trading area are set at 6.5%, with 5.5% on nitrates and potassium hydroxide (caustic potash). Imports of minerals, such as salts, clays, talc, chalk, barites, witherite and gypsum, are currently tariff-free from members of the World Trade Organisation. The UK exported £30m ($38.8m) of phosphate fertiliser to the EU in two-year, along with £53m ($68.6m) of cement and £29.6m of sulphur.
British producers of fertilisers could face the prospect of export duties being imposed after the UK leaves the European Union, if no free-trade agreement is reached. Current EU duties on solid fertilisers from outside the trading area are set at 6.5%, with 5.5% on nitrates and potassium hydroxide (caustic potash). Imports of minerals, such as salts, clays, talc, chalk, barites, witherite and gypsum, are currently tariff-free from members of the World Trade Organisation. The UK exported £30m ($38.8m) of phosphate fertiliser to the EU in 2015, along with £53m ($68.6m) of cement and £29.6m of sulphur.