La Polonia avverte l’UE contro il eccessivo affidamento ai fertilizzanti russi

Russian fertilizer is good for growing sunflowers, though.

newszier.com is a less than a month old domain. [Full Bloomberg article](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-29/poland-warns-eu-to-avoid-dependency-on-cheap-russian-fertilizers?leadSource=uverify%20wall) this blogpost cites as a source reads entirely different:

>Poland is targeting companies importing Russian fertilisers, in a bid to prevent the European Union from developing another dependency on Moscow for a key resource.

>The country’s tax authority has so far identified and penalized companies responsible for 70% of imports of Belarusian urea, a widely-used fertilizer, Deputy Finance Minister Zbigniew Stawicki said. But despite close scrutiny, banning imports from Russia is more complicated, he added. “We’re dealing with companies operating on the territory of a hostile state,” Stawicki, who is also deputy head of Poland’s tax office, told Bloomberg News in an interview in Warsaw. “It’s very difficult and risky to identify what’s happening there on the ground.”

>A staunch supporter of Kyiv on NATO’s eastern flank, Poland relied heavily on Russian oil and gas supplies before Moscow’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor. After weaning the country off Russian hydrocarbons, officials in Warsaw say they’re now concerned about a flood of cheap fertilizer from the east. The effort comes as the EU has proposed imposing tariffs on some nitrogen-based fertilizers coming from Belarus and Russia. Any move would likely be welcomed by Europe’s crop nutrient industry, which has been lobbying for more protections. Stawicki said importers of Belarusian urea were punished due to evidence that they were selling products made by Grodno Azot, the country’s sole fertilizer-maker which is subject to EU sanctions. Russia, however, is much bigger and has a wider range of producers. Russian fertilizers as such aren’t sanctioned.

>Imposing EU duties on all fertilizer imports from Belarus and Russia would completely stop the inflow of the cheap products “strangling” Poland’s fertilizer industry, which otherwise faces “collapse,” Stawicki said. “The export of cheap fertilizers is dangerously making us dependent on key commodities,” Stawicki said. “We do not want to depend on Russia in this area.” He added that Poland has sanctioned five companies illegally importing Belarusian fertilizers in recent months, saying that the EU’s existing sanctions fail to block the trade.

>Several other industries have alerted the Polish authorities about unfair competition due to sanctions avoidance, including sales of wood, luxury goods and tractors, Stawicki said. “All sanctioned industries and all sanctioned entities are within the scope of our interest,” he said.

Who would have thought that Poland would be the voice of reason 10 years ago.

How much carbon tax does ruzzia pay on their nitrogen production? If the answer is even a single cent less than what EU companies are forced to pay the import allowance should be set at zero, by law. Goes for every other country on every other CO2 intense production.