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Solving EU fertilizer crunch carries risks for bloc's industrial, trade policies

By Oscar Pandiello ( April 23, 2026, 13:45 GMT | Comment) -- The EU's carbon border levy faces an early test as one of the bloc's main tools to keep carbon-intensive industries competitive. The Iran war's pressure on fertilizer prices and imports has seen the commodity presented as a case study in favor of a proposed emergency article allowing goods to be suspended from the CBAM, but there are concerns that other sectors could seek the same relief, with major risks for the EU's wider trade policy.Europe's fertilizer industry, which supplies the farming sector with essential nutrients and sits near the start of the food chain, is turning what might have appeared to be a sectoral problem into a much broader test of the EU’s industrial and trade policy....

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