{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://mann.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-mann-continues-fight-against-high-fertilizer-prices", "Rep. Mann Continues Fight Against High Fertilizer Prices", "2023-10-27", "2023", "2023-10", "Republican", "House", "KS", "Tracey Mann", "M000871", "mann.house.gov", "mann", "https://mann.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Representatives Tracey Mann (KS-01) and Jim Costa (CA-21) alongside U.S. Senators Jerry Moran (R-KS) and Roger Marshall (R-KS) led 35 of their colleagues in urging U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo to revise how the Department of Commerce calculates countervailing duties on phosphate fertilizers from Morocco.\n\nThe U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) recently remanded to the Department a calculation of its subsidies, which impacts duties imposed on phosphate fertilizers. The bicameral, bipartisan group addressed the financial burden that the duties place on farmers.\n\n\u201cAmerican farmers have labored under skyrocketing fertilizer prices for more than three years,\u201d said Rep. Mann. \u201cTariffs on phosphate imports led to a price increase of more than 220% from 2020 to 2022. Under current tariffs, the average price of phosphate fertilizer in America is the highest in the world. As farmers purchase this key input at elevated prices, they end up competing in the global marketplace at a competitive disadvantage to foreign producers. American farmers work tirelessly every day to keep us all fed, and as they seek to meet their need for a reliable, diverse supply of fertilizer, the Department of Commerce should lower tariffs on Moroccan phosphate fertilizer.\u201d\n\n\u201cWe ask that Commerce carefully consider and follow the CIT\u2019s decision in Commerce\u2019s recalculation of the subsidy amount, both in its final determination in the investigation and its administrative review,\u201d the members wrote. \u201cReducing the subsidy rate would provide welcomed relief for U.S. farm suppliers and their customers, American family farms.\u201d\n\nThe full text of the letter can be found here.\n\nOn March 2, 2021, Rep. Mann joined a letterto U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) Chair Jason Kearns opposing the countervailing duty (CVD) petition filed on June 26, 2020 against the import of certain phosphate fertilizers.\n\nOn March 17, 2022, Rep. Mann led a letterto ITC Chair Kearns requesting that the ITC eliminate tariffs on phosphate fertilizer products imported from Morocco and suspend the process of imposing new tariffs on urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) fertilizer from Trinidad and Tobago.\n\nOn July 14, 2022, Rep. Mann led a letterto President Biden demanding that the Administration waive import duties on UAN fertilizer from long-time supplier Trinidad and Tobago.\n\nOn June 15, 2022, Rep. Mann led a letterto Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo urging Commerce to consider several issues regarding the antidumping duty investigation of UAN solutions from Trinidad and Tobago.\n\nOn June 16, 2022, Rep. Mann testified before the ITC on behalf of farmers and agricultural producers in Kansas and across the country.\n\nOn July 18, 2022, Rep. Mann released a statement responding to the ITC\u2019s determination that anti-dumping activity surrounding UAN fertilizers in Trinidad and Tobago did not harm the U.S. fertilizer industry.\n\nOn October 5, 2023, Rep. Mann led a letterto Secretary Raimondo urging the department to ensure that their methodology for assessing tariffs on imported fertilizers is fair and representative of the global marketplace.\n\nClick here to view Rep. Mann\u2019s Commitment to the Big First.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T00:49:26Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://mann.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-mann-continues-fight-against-high-fertilizer-prices"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6235029324889183, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}