Frugal countries said an end-of-year agreement is less likely after Ireland’s proposal.

For a sign of just how extraordinary oil shipping costs have become, consider this: It’s now more expensive to hire a tanker from the US to China than to launch a rocket into space.

“Even if we wanted to supply [potash] to other, Western markets, we simply do not have those volumes,” said the Belarusian president.

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