In 2025 the European Union imported 2.68 million tonnes of nitrogen fertilisers from Russia, 5% more than the previous year.
45% confidence
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No Eurostat primary dataset giving the tonnage of nitrogen fertilisers (CN chapter 31/3102) imported into the EU from Russia in 2025 was found; the figures available come from trade press and from UN COMTRADE value data.
The closest matching published figure (Polish trade portal agrofakt.pl: total Russian fertiliser imports into the EU in 2025 'probably will not exceed 2.7 million tonnes') is an estimate/upper bound and may cover all fertilisers from Russia rather than nitrogen fertilisers only, so the exact scope of the 2.68 Mt claim is not independently pinned down.
The claimed year-on-year increase of +5% versus 2024 is not corroborated by any source found; other trade reporting (nawozy.eu) describes Russian fertiliser imports into the EU as 'sharply decelerating' after the July 2025 EU tariffs on nitrogen-based products (Regulation (EU) 2025/1227, €40/t surcharge from 1 July 2025), which makes a full-year increase questionable though not excluded (imports of nitrogen fertilisers from all origins into the EU reportedly hit a record 4.75 Mt in Q4 2025, suggesting frontloading).
Sources found are secondary (Polish agricultural trade press, Trading Economics aggregation of UN COMTRADE); none is an official EU statistical publication, and some were published or updated after the 20 October 2026 session date.
Sources
Secondaryagrofakt.pl — 'Jak długo importowane rosyjskie nawozy będą dostępne w Polsce'"Dla porównania w I półroczu 2025 r. import ten wyniósł 1,2 mln ton. Z kolei łączny import z Rosji do UE prawdopodobnie nie przekroczy 2,7 mln ton" (total imports of Russian fertilisers into the EU in 2025 probably will not exceed 2.7 million tonnes)
SecondaryGPCA / Argus — 'EU duties on Russian fertilizers: global and regional implications'"The EU imported 4.7 million tons of fertilizers from Russia and Belarus under the affected tariff codes in 2024... Russia in particular was the EU's second-largest urea supplier in 2024, providing 1.72 million tons of the estimated 6.2 million tons of total urea imports from non-EU nations"
Secondarynawozy.eu — 'Import nawozów z Rosji gwałtownie hamuje'"W samym IV kwartale 2025 r. do UE sprowadzono rekordowe 4,75 mln ton nawozów azotowych" (in Q4 2025 alone a record 4.75 million tonnes of nitrogen fertilisers were brought into the EU) — imports from Russia reported to be slowing after tariffs/CBAM