since russia invaded ukraine shipping companies have avoided docking at st petersburg russia to collect goods mr niang said that together with the impact of the wests financial sanctions against moscow means fertilizer exports from russiathe worlds largest producerhave fallen sharply mr niang contacted sellers elsewhere such as in senegal and morocco but was told their order books are full until the end of the year us renews tariff exemptions for some chinese imports washingtonthe biden administration said wednesday that it will renew tariff waivers for 352 categories of goods from china after previously granted exemptions expired the items that will be exempted include certain kinds of bicycle parts electric motors machinery chemicals seafood and duffel bags north korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile on thursday seouls military said its most significant weapons test in more than four years initial flight data suggested the missile had soared higher and longer than north koreas intercontinental ballistic missile test in november 2017a launch that demonstrated that kim jong uns regime for the first time had the capability to strike the us mainland hong kongsearch and rescue teams on thursday discovered what they suspect is an engine from the plane carrying 132 people that rammed into the mountains of southern china as the hunt continued for the second black box with no signs of survivors three days after the crash all aboard the boeing 737 operated by china eastern airlinesnine aircrew and 123 passengersare feared dead in what would be chinas worst air disaster in nearly three decades airline ceos ask biden to drop mask requirement for planes and airports chief executives of major passenger and cargo airlines pressed president biden on wednesday to do away with the requirement that passengers wear masks on planes and in airports top executives at airlines including american airlines group inc united airlines holdings inc and delta air lines inc wrote in a letter to mr biden that mandatory masking and another requirement that passengers test negative for covid19 before flying to the us from abroad are no longer necessary now that cases and hospitalizations are on the decline write to us at newslettersdowjonescom we offer an enhanced version of this briefing that is optimized for viewing on mobile devices and sent directly to your email inbox if you would like to sign up please go to httpsnewspluswsjcomsubscriptions this article is a text version of a wall street journal newsletter published earlier today