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...Today potash prices are less than half of their highs during the early stages of the war, as more Russian and Belarusian supplies have been able to reach global markets than expected....
...But Lithuania, which stopped Belarusian potash from entering its Klaipėda port, is leading the drive for stricter sanctions instead....
...However, it will be difficult to replace Russian and Belarusian supply in the short-term, particularly given most of the world’s attractive potash deposits were already developed during the China-driven...
...It will stop imports of wood, cement, steel, potash and other materials worth more than €4bn annually. EU companies have three months to wind up contracts with Belarusian suppliers....
...She also wants Russian and Belarusian athletes to be banned from the Olympics. Such stances have put her on collision course with the International Olympic Committee....
...The US sanctions also targeted Tsentrkurort, as well as defence and security companies and the potash sector, and identified three aircraft as blocked property....
...Much Belarusian potash is exported through highly visible dedicated port facilities in Lithuania. This makes it hard for Belarus to avoid sanctions through this outlet....
...The bloc has already targeted senior officials and the national carrier Belavia; it should be ready to toughen restrictions on lucrative Belarusian exports such as petroleum products and potash, even if...
...Analysts say the early impact on Belarus’s potash export volumes was limited, while prices soared — giving the country’s state-controlled potash groups an unexpected shot in the arm....
...Russia is Belarus’s biggest trading partner, accounting for about half of its exports and imports, and Russian companies have stakes in key Belarusian businesses, including the Mozyr refinery, one of the...
...Its aim, diplomats said, is to target state companies and other big sources of revenue for the regime....
...The opposition to the Belarus regime has urged Brussels to prohibit EU dealings with two dozen state-owned Belarusian companies, block key exports from Minsk and ban new foreign investment into the country...
...However . . . we can confirm that the message in question was sent after the plane was redirected,” the company said....
...Belarus’s tightening of social restrictions came as European leaders agreed on Monday to “targeted” economic measures expected to be aimed at companies and oligarchs accused of financing Lukashenko’s 27-...
...The EU wants to choke off funds to the Lukashenko regime, including via the state companies that dominate the Belarus economy....
...Up until 2013, Canpotex appeared to co-ordinate price-setting with Russian and Belarusian producers. Potash profit margins are generally higher than those of other fertilisers....
...Already a low-cost producer like its Belarusian rival, Uralkali has a strategy to focus more on keeping the potash price up rather than increasing its volumes....
...In 2017, supermarket chain Eurotorg became the first Belarusian company to issue a eurobond, raising $350m in a more than five-times subscribed sale....
...“If locals don’t come [to work] from Soligorsk [where Belaruskali, the country’s largest potash mining company is headquartered], then miners from Ukraine will,” Mr Lukashenko said last week....
...He added that in Zhodino, a 65,000 strong city some 55km north-east of Minsk, the Belarusian capital, security forces had detained “rows” of people....
...By Monday the strikes had swelled to encompass thousands of workers, including some staff at the crucial potash miner, Belaruskali. Cracks have also begun to emerge in Belarus’s elite....
...Banknote printer De La Rue has also unveiled a £100m equity raise on Wednesday....
...“Now comes the fun part where we wait and see if Cantopex [a group of Canadian potash producers] or the Belarusians turn up to take control of this project. We could end up in a bidding war.”...
...De La Rue has a cunning plan. ... Firestone Diamonds wants to cancel itself. ... Clermont’s up to 3.18 per cent of NMC Health. .......
...The Belarusian Potash Company has signed a new contract with its Chinese buyers at a higher than expected price of $290 a tonne, up 25 per cent from the previous year....
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