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Fuel Price Gap Halts Imports, Threatening Brazil’s Critical Grain Planting Season

An artificial price difference between Petrobras and global diesel benchmarks is causing independent importers to halt purchases, creating supply shortages for the start of the summer planting season in Brazil's South.

By Eleanor Shaw

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Fuel Price Gap Halts Imports, Threatening Brazil’s Critical Grain Planting Season
Illustration — BRZ.news

An artificial price difference between Petrobras and global diesel benchmarks is causing independent importers to halt purchases, creating supply shortages for the start of the summer planting season in Brazil's South.

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