US President Donald Trump said Washington was working on a "massive" deal to buy fertilizer from Belarus, despite Minsk's repression of dissidents and support for Russia's war in Ukraine. Trump said on social media that the cost of the potash from Belarus would be "substantially less than we are currently paying to Canada," the US neighbour against which he has stepped up a trade war. Potash is a potassium-rich salt mined mainly for fertilizer, helping crops grow and improving yields. Canada supplies most of the potash used by American farmers. Belarus is one of the world's largest producers, but the European Union bans imports of Belarusian potash and has frozen the assets of state producer Belaruskali.
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