{"id":1555220,"date":"2022-07-14T18:04:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T22:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1555220"},"modified":"2022-07-14T18:04:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T22:04:24","slug":"lawmakers-urge-biden-to-waive-tariffs-on-fertilizer-after-he-helped-solar-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawmakers-urge-biden-to-waive-tariffs-on-fertilizer-after-he-helped-solar-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers Urge Biden To Waive Tariffs On Fertilizer After He Helped Solar Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flawmakers-urge-biden-to-waive-tariffs-on-fertilizer-after-he-helped-solar-industry%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1555220&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"p1\">Lawmakers are calling on President Joe Biden to help farmers by waiving tariffs on fertilizer in light of soaring fertilizer costs, pointing out that Biden took similar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/06\/06\/declaration-of-emergency-and-authorization-for-temporary-extensions-of-time-and-duty-free-importation-of-solar-cells-and-modules-from-southeast-asia\/\">action<\/a> last month to help boost solar production.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Farmers across the country are feeling the pinch as fertilizer costs have increased this year due to supply chain delays and the war in Ukraine. The price of nitrogen fertilizer ammonia went down 30% in May, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-05-26\/fertilizer-prices-plunge-nearly-30-giving-relief-to-farmers\">Bloomberg<\/a>, but was still 87% higher than it was last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Mike Wade, executive director of the California Farm Water Coalition, told The Daily Wire over email that the costs of fertilizer \u201care one of the biggest expenses when it comes to producing food.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cAny relief, including reducing tariffs, suspending federal and state fuel taxes, and boosting energy production would help all Americans by getting more food into grocery stores at lower [sic] a lower cost,\u201d Wade added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Several senators and representatives <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ernst.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/letter_to_president_biden_fertilizer_tariff_relief.pdf\">wrote<\/a> a letter to Biden on Thursday, urging him to waive the \u201cduties on fertilizer imports\u201d imposed by his administration on fertilizer items from Morocco, \u201cand place a moratorium on any new duties\u201d on specific fertilizer from Trinidad and Tobago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The request comes as part of an effort to create relief for farmers so they can buy the fertilizer they need in order to grow crops. If farmers aren\u2019t able to grow their crops to market size, or have to make decisions on which crops to grow, consumers may see fewer options in grocery stores next year<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Last month, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/biden-waives-solar-panel-tariffs-invokes-defense-law-white-house-confirms-2022-06-06\/\">waived<\/a> tariffs on solar panels from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam for two years and used the Defense Production Act to spark the creation of solar panels in the United States. A probe into the four nations had previously been announced in March, and is reportedly looking into whether solar panel imports from the specific nations were avoiding tariffs on products manufactured in China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This isn\u2019t the first time lawmakers have attempted to secure aid for farmers. In March, Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) and Representative Tracey Mann (R-KS), two of the lawmakers who signed Thursday\u2019s letter, introduced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/HEY22119.pdf\">bill<\/a> that would create \u201ca temporary waiver of countervailing and antidumping duties relating to fertilizer or fertilizer ingredients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/taxfoundation.org\/who-really-pays-tariffs\/\">Tax Foundation<\/a>, while tariffs have been utilized in order to make trade harder on foreign countries exporting goods and uplift companies in the U.S., the cost often falls on consumers and American companies. In the past, economic experts discovered that foreign businesses took on some of the tariffs in dropping their prices, but recent studies have shown that the burden of Trump-Biden tariffs have almost been completely put on the American businesses or consumers who end up buying the products.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Durante, a federal tax economist at the Tax Foundation, told The Daily Wire over email, \u201cif we draw from recent evidence of the U.S. tariff policy, the evidence overwhelmingly [sic] that tariffs raise prices for U.S. business and consumers and we should expect similar results [with the fertilizer issue].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Durante noted that estimates have shown how the U.S. China-trade war likely increased consumer prices by 0.4 percentage points on its own. \u201cThat\u2019s not a huge effect,\u201d he said, \u201cbut it\u2019s a policy that\u2019s also not helping either.\u201d He also mentioned a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piie.com\/blogs\/realtime-economic-issues-watch\/fight-inflation-cutting-tariffs-china-only-start\">report<\/a> from the Peterson Institute which estimated that lowering tariffs could help bring down inflation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Daniel Hartwig, president of Fresno County Farm Bureau and resource manager at Woolf Enterprises, told The Daily Wire over email that the end users ultimately have to pay for tariffs, \u201cwhich, in this case, is the farmer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cAs one of our inputs that has increased the most in the past year, removing any barrier to entry, including tariffs, should help stabilize markets and hopefully bring prices down from their record highs,\u201d he said, adding that there is still a global fertilizers shortage, so the relief would probably not be immediately felt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers are calling on President Joe Biden to help farmers by waiving tariffs on fertilizer in light of soaring fertilizer costs, pointing out that Biden took similar action last month to help boost solar production. 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