OREANDA-NEWS. The Belarusian Tax Ministry has adopted resolution #13, which raises the average weighted price of exported potash fertilizer in January 2014 to Br2.259 million (USD 230.3)

The Ministry said that the present weighted mean price is the baseline for calculating the size of the tax on the extraction of natural resources. A calendar quarter is the taxation period.

The average price of exported potash fertilizer in February 2014 reduced 8.7% in comparison with Q4 2013 prices to USD 217.4 per tonne.