China's imports from Belarus reach $1.44bn in eight months, with potash at $903.7m

China imported roughly $1.44 billion worth of goods from Belarus in January–August 2026, and more than half of that sum was potash fertilizer, according to belmarket.by, which cited a review of the data by Myfin.

Potash carries close to two-thirds of the value

China paid $903.7 million for Belarusian potash over the eight months, belmarket.by reported. Measured against the roughly $1.44 billion total, that single product group accounts for about 63% of everything China bought from Belarus in the period. The remainder — some $540 million, or around $67 million a month — is split among pulp, peat products, wood panels, fiberglass, food and drink and unnamed other items. Potash remains the key commodity China buys from Belarus, the publication said.

The figures published are values, not volumes. Neither belmarket.by nor Myfin gave tonnage, an average unit price, or a comparison with January–August 2025, so it is not possible to tell from this material how much of the result came from shipped quantity and how much from contract prices. At the reported pace, Belarusian potash earned about $113 million a month on the Chinese market, while total Belarusian sales to China ran at about $180 million a month.

What else Belarus ships to the Chinese market

Beyond fertilizer, belmarket.by listed the following Belarusian products reaching Chinese buyers in 2026:

• cellulose pulp
• peat products
• particleboard
• fiberglass
• poultry meat and edible poultry offal
• chocolate
• vodka

The report did not put a value on any of these lines, and said other goods were shipped in addition to those named. The list splits into two very different businesses. Industrial intermediates such as pulp, peat, wood panels and fiberglass feed processing, packaging and construction-materials supply chains, and move on volume contracts. Branded consumer goods such as chocolate and vodka sell in far smaller quantities and depend on retail distribution. Poultry meat and offal sits between the two: a commodity food line where market access depends on veterinary approvals as much as on price.

A corridor tied to one product group

The composition matters more than the headline number. With about 63% of the value in fertilizer, the dollar size of Belarus's trade with China is set mainly by what happens in potash — pricing, contracted volumes and logistics — rather than by the breadth of the export basket. If potash slipped, nothing else on the published list is large enough to compensate: all the remaining categories together are worth less than the fertilizer line on its own. belmarket.by attributed the underlying figures to Myfin and did not name the customs source behind them.

For fertilizer buyers, the data confirms that Belarusian material remains a live part of China's supply picture in 2026, at a scale of nearly $1 billion in eight months. For Belarusian producers, the reverse reading applies: a single destination absorbing tonnage at that rate concentrates revenue and bargaining exposure in one relationship. Because the numbers cover only eight months, full-year totals and any comparison with 2025 will depend on data still to be published.