Belgium Is Pushing to Dilute the EU’s Belarus Potash Sanctions

  • Diplomats say EU companies struggle to implement the measures
  • Belgium proposes up to a 2% deviation in potassium content
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Belgium is trying to water down European Union sanctions on Belarus’s potash industry, in a bid to ease difficulties companies within the bloc face in implementing the measures.

Diplomats in Brussels have written to other EU member states, requesting a loosening of restrictions on Belarusian potash to allow for changes to the potassium content of fertilizer imports, according to a letter seen by Bloomberg News.