Potash quotas ended
"I am glad this restriction has been removed. It no longer made sense to have anti dumping duties and quotas being imposed when the market has completely changed," he said.
He said it was an issue that had been pursued by MEPs and lobby organisations as it affected farmers in all the member states and with the removal of the duties and quotas from tonight farmers and growers would be able to benefit from a wider supply base for their fertiliser needs.
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Hide AdIan Backhouse, NFU combinable crops board chairman and chairman of the Copa-Cogeca cereals working party, said: "This decision shows that the Commission has listened to our arguments and recognises that it is in the interest of European agriculture to be able to source key inputs from across the world at the most competitive prices."