Lawmakers call for tariff reductions to address high input prices

Congressman Greg Pence says he’d like to see action taken to ease the burden of high fertilizer prices on farmers.

The Indiana republican joined more than 80 lawmakers in asking International Trade Commission Chair Jason Kearns to reconsider duties on phosphate fertilizer imported from Morocco and suspend the process to impose new duties on urea ammonium nitrate fertilizer from Trinidad and Tobago.

“These are ways we can immediately impact or drive down some of the input prices, or at least hold them steady instead of them being driven up by administrative regulations and restrictions,” he says.

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