China's crackdown barely dents India's speciality fertiliser imports

Between January and October 2024 and 2025, data show that speciality water soluble fertiliser imports from China dropped by just 5.2 per cent

China’s crackdown on exports of water soluble fertilisers (WSFs), also called speciality fertilisers, was expected to lead to a massive drop in imports as the country accounted for more than half of the supplies, but recent data show that the so far the impact of any restriction has been rather subdued.

 

China has been intermittently imposing special checks and curbs on speciality fertiliser exports to India over the past few years, which became somewhat acute from around April-May 2025. Fresh curbs have come into force from October 2025

 

Data show that between January and October in 2025, India imported close