U.S. Lifts Fertilizer Sanctions on Belarus as Iran War Causes Price Surge
Valerie Hopkins and Tomas Dapkus
created: March 19, 2026, 7:02 p.m. | updated: March 21, 2026, 8:08 a.m.
The Trump administration made the move in exchange for Belarus’s freeing of 250 political prisoners, part of a rapprochement between the two countries.
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