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Library of Parliament: 2024 potash exports 22.8 Mt, about 53% to the US
A Library of Parliament HillNotes paper on potash and the Canada–US trade relationship: Canada exported 22.8 million tonnes of potash in 2024, 12.1 Mt (about 53%) to the US, then Brazil (3.1 Mt) and China (1.4 Mt). Offshore exports were thus about 47% of the total.
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- Library of Parliament (HillNotes), “Potash and the Canada-United States Trade Relationship” (external site), . source record
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- About half of Canadian potash already goes overseas. Half of the new export terminal capacity (about 10 million tonnes a year) is at a US port, Longview in Washington state, which Nutrien chose on cost alone over Ottawa's objections.
2024: 22.8 Mt exported, 12.1 Mt (about 53%) to the US, so about 47% overseas: the basis of 'about half already goes overseas'.