Resumen de IM 2012 Round-ups: Phosphate
Exports of phosphate from the Middle Eastern state to the EU were worth over U97m ($128m) in 2010 and represented about 40% of Syria's total exports of the fertiliser mineral.
The China Chemical Mining Association also announced in its'12 th five-year development plan for chemical and mining industries', that it would establish a phosphate reserves system; it also pledged to raise the level for phosphate mining approvals and focus on establishing one to three trans-regional and influential large phosphate corporations.
In India, where around 11m tpa diammonium phosphate (DAP) is consumed, 7m tpa phosphate rock was imported in 2011, according to Paris-based International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA).
