A letter from Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Savelyev to President Vladimir Putin concludes there is no need for additional support for coal exports through Russia's congested northwestern and southern ports, Lenta.ru reports citing Kommersant. Port and coal industry sources disagree, pointing to a 2.25-fold rise in railway tariffs and falling prices, with Far East coking coal down 6.2 percent in the last week of June.
Russia cut fertilizer shipments to the United States by half in May, to almost $160 million, according to a RIA Novosti calculation based on Rosstat data. The drop was measured month-on-month, underscoring the seasonality and volatility of a trade flow that has stayed outside the main Western sanctions.
Indonesia has become the first country to raise the palm oil share in its diesel to 50%, moving from the B40 to the B50 standard. Officials say the shift will lift crude palm oil consumption to 17 million tonnes, cut diesel imports and save up to Rp170 trillion a year.
Thousands of farmers gathered in Chandigarh under the Samyukt Kisan Morcha banner to oppose a proposed India-US free trade agreement and Punjab's new land pooling policy. Farm unions say the deal would let cheaper foreign farm and dairy goods into the Indian market, hurting incomes and small industry.
Exporters of manufacturing-grade beef face a tougher export market as the new financial year opens, with mounting Brazilian competition, according to Beef Central. The pressure is concentrated on lower-value grinding beef rather than premium cuts, giving importers a cheaper alternative and eroding rival exporters' pricing power.
Wholesale electricity prices in Australia jumped to $19,000 on Wednesday night as an unusually windless evening demand peak met unexpectedly low output from Victoria's two biggest coal generators. The Australian Financial Review reported that energy experts were left puzzled by the size of the move, which underlines how far the grid still leans on coal.
Cherry production is rising across key Northern Hemisphere regions, adding competition and softening prices, according to agnetwest.com. Turkey's exports and a building North American season are increasing supply, while South Africa expands and Australia and New Zealand see mixed results.
The EU wants to grow more soybeans at home and cut its reliance on imports. But new EU regulations threaten to make domestic soy farming unattractive, undermining the bloc's self-sufficiency goal and leaving import-dependent supply chains in place.
Two-way trade between India and Australia reached $24.1 billion in FY2024-25 under the ECTA, according to patrika.com, following Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Melbourne. The two sides are negotiating a broader CECA and have set a target of $100 billion in bilateral trade by 2030.
Brazil exported 785.4 thousand tonnes of pork in the first half of 2026, the largest first-semester volume since Secex records began in 1997, according to Cepea. Slower domestic consumption pushed the industry toward foreign buyers, and every month topped 110 thousand tonnes for the first time.
Ghana has won firm purchase commitments from the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia for cocoa paste, butter, cake and powder, according to La Tribune, citing the Cocoa Marketing Company. The world's second-largest producer is pushing value-added processing even as its grinding plants run at 50% of a 505,000-tonne capacity.
Turkey's exports to Africa rose 12 percent year on year to $11 billion in the first half of 2025, according to TİM data cited by CNN Türk. Morocco remained the top destination at $2.1 billion, while Egypt posted the largest gain in value with a $349.4 million increase.
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