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CF Industries Holdings, Inc.

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How CF rewrote its risk factors

10-K ITEM 1A · FY2024 → FY2025

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During such periods, nitrogen manufacturers, including the Company, have built new production capacity or expanded capacity of existing production assets, or have announced plans to do so.
Construction of new production capacity in the industry, and improvements to increase output from existing production assets, increase nitrogen supply availability and place downward pressure on nitrogen selling prices, particularly when supply growth outpaces demand growth.
Additional nitrogen production capacity has come online in the past 12 months and is expected to continue to do so globally over the next 12 months.
In addition, we and other companies have announced plans to build new facilities for low-carbon ammonia, such as our ongoing development of a low-carbon ammonia production facility at our Blue Point complex in Louisiana.
Additionally, global or local economic, political and financial conditions or changes in such conditions, or other factors, may cause acceleration of announced and/or ongoing projects, which could further impact nitrogen selling prices.
Similarly, lower energy prices can spur increases in production, which would result in increased supply and pressure on selling prices.
Customers tend to make their purchasing decisions of these products principally on the basis of delivered price and, to a lesser extent, low-carbon attributes, reliability, customer service and product quality.
Furthermore, state-owned competitors may be willing to accept lower prices and profitability on their products, or may have their production inputs or CF INDUSTRIES HOLDINGS, INC. consumption subsidized in order to support domestic employment or to foster other political or social goals.
We may not be able to be competitive with these entities, including if we are not able to expand our own resources to a similar extent, either through investments in new or existing operations or through acquisitions or joint ventures.
China, the world’s largest producer and consumer of nitrogen fertilizers, currently has a government policy to limit exports of nitrogen fertilizers through a variety of measures.
However, a number of factors could encourage China to expand exports of nitrogen fertilizers, including changes in Chinese government policy, higher utilization of production capacity, devaluation of the Chinese renminbi, the relaxation of Chinese environmental standards or decreases in Chinese producers’ underlying costs such as the price of Chinese coal.
We also face competition from other fertilizer producers in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and the Western Hemisphere, including Canada and Trinidad and Tobago (Trinidad).
In addition, in recent years, high volumes of urea ammonium nitrate solution (UAN) imports from Russia have negatively affected U.S. producers’ UAN profitability.
Recently, many proposed low-carbon ammonia projects have been announced or considered, and future hydrogen, energy, environmental or carbon policies may support development of additional nitrogen production in locations outside North America, including Europe, Australia, India, and the Middle East.
For example, the imposition of duties, tariffs or quotas in a region, such as the European Union’s imposition of additional and increasing tariffs on nitrogen fertilizers from Russia that began in July 2025, can directly impact product pricing in that region, which can lead to changes in global trade flows and impact the global supply and demand balance and pricing.
Changes to tariffs on imports into the United States, retaliatory tariffs on U.S. exports, and potential renegotiation of trade deals may also impact prices or trade flows.
For example, the European Commission recently extended through January 6, 2031, definitive anti-dumping duties on imports to the European Union (EU) of UAN manufactured in Russia, Trinidad and the United States.
For example, ethanol production in the United States contributes significantly to corn demand, representing approximately 35% of total U.S. corn demand, and is impacted by federal legislation mandating renewable fuels use.
Mandated ethanol production increases have increased the amount of corn grown in the United States and related fertilizer usage.
Conversely, while the current Renewable CF INDUSTRIES HOLDINGS, INC.
Fuel Standard encourages continued high levels of corn-based ethanol production, various interested parties have called to eliminate or reduce the renewable fuel mandate, or to eliminate or reduce corn-based ethanol as part of such mandate.
For example, the United Kingdom implemented an assurance scheme in 2024 to limit the use of unprotected or uninhibited urea products between January and March of every year.
LNG export capabilities have expanded, and U.S.
LNG exports have increased, resulting in the United States becoming a leading exporter of LNG globally, with further expanded capabilities and export increases expected following the resumption of U.S. export permitting in 2025.
Increased demand for natural gas, particularly in the Gulf Coast CF INDUSTRIES HOLDINGS, INC.
Region, due to increased industrial demand and increased natural gas exports, could result in increased natural gas prices.
In addition, adverse weather events, such as extreme cold temperatures, storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, or floods, not only can cause loss of power or other impacts to our facilities or damage to or delays in logistics capabilities disrupting our operations, but also can impact the supply of natural gas and utilities and cause prices to rise.
In contrast, we and other fertilizer producers generally manufacture and distribute products throughout the year.
The seasonality of fertilizer demand generally CF INDUSTRIES HOLDINGS, INC. results in our sales volumes and net sales being the highest during the spring and our working capital requirements to build inventory being the highest just prior to the start of the spring planting season.
Our transportation and distribution activities, including those related to carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) sequestration, rely on third party providers and are subject to environmental, safety and regulatory oversight.
We rely on natural gas pipelines to transport natural gas, the principal raw material used in our production process, to our manufacturing facilities.
Further to our clean energy strategy, we recently launched low-carbon ammonia production at our Donaldsonville complex and have ongoing investments in our Yazoo City and Blue Point complexes.
This production and these investments are dependent on our third-party providers, including their CO 2 pipelines and sequestration wells, for the transport and permanent sequestration of CO 2 .
These transportation operations, equipment and services are subject to various hazards and other sources of disruption, including adverse operating conditions on the inland waterway system or on the seas with respect to CF INDUSTRIES HOLDINGS, INC. oceangoing vessels, adverse weather conditions, system failures, unscheduled downtime, labor difficulties or shortages, shutdowns, delays, accidents such as spills and derailments, vessel groundings and other accidents and operating hazards.
The inability of our third-party providers to develop or operate CO 2 pipelines and sequestration wells would impact our ability to generate tax credits and recognize revenue for low-carbon ammonia sales.
These transportation operations, equipment and services, including those related to CO 2 sequestration, are also subject to environmental, safety, and regulatory oversight.
Governmental entities could implement new or more stringent regulatory requirements affecting the transportation of raw materials or finished products or affecting the transportation or sequestration of CO 2 .
In the United States and Canada, the railroad industry continues various efforts to limit its potential liability with respect to transportation of toxic inhalation hazard materials, such as the ammonia we transport to and from our manufacturing and distribution facilities.
These initiatives could materially and adversely affect our operating expenses and potentially our ability to transport ammonia, including the impact of potential rail mergers, which if approved, would reduce the number of Class I railroads available to transport ammonia.
Additionally, the railroad initiatives could increase our liability for releases of our ammonia while in the care, custody and control of the railroads, third parties or us, for which our insurance may be insufficient or unavailable.

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In the past, nitrogen manufacturers, including the Company, have built new production facilities or expanded capacity of existing production assets, or announced plans to do so.
The construction of new nitrogen manufacturing capacity in the industry, and improvements to increase output from existing production assets, increase nitrogen supply availability and place downward pressure on nitrogen selling prices, particularly when supply growth outpaces demand growth.
Additional nitrogen production capacity is expected to come online over the next 12 months.
In addition, we and other companies have announced plans to build new facilities for low-carbon ammonia, such as our proposed plans for an export-oriented greenfield low-carbon ammonia production facility in Louisiana.
Also, global or local economic, political and financial conditions or changes in such conditions, or other factors, may cause acceleration of announced and/or ongoing projects.
Similarly, lower energy prices can spur increases in production in high-cost regions, which would result in increased supply and pressure on selling prices.
Customers tend to make their purchasing decisions of these products principally on the basis of delivered price and, to a lesser extent, customer service and product quality.
Furthermore, state-owned competitors may be willing to accept lower prices and profitability on their products, or may have their production inputs or consumption subsidized in order to support domestic employment or to foster other political or social goals.
We may not be CF INDUSTRIES HOLDINGS, INC. able to be competitive with these entities, including if we are not able to expand our own resources to a similar extent, either through investments in new or existing operations or through acquisitions or joint ventures.
China, the world’s largest producer and consumer of nitrogen fertilizers, currently has surplus capacity and many high-cost plants.
As a result, the domestic nitrogen industry in China is operating at less than full capacity.
In addition, the Chinese government is currently limiting exports through a variety of measures.
A number of factors could encourage China to increase product capacity utilization or expand exports of nitrogen fertilizers, including changes in Chinese government policy, devaluation of the Chinese renminbi, the relaxation of Chinese environmental standards or decreases in Chinese producers’ underlying costs such as the price of Chinese coal.
We also face competition from other fertilizer producers in the Middle East, Europe, Latin America and Africa.
In addition, in recent years, high volumes of urea ammonium nitrate solution (UAN) imports from Russia and Trinidad and Tobago (Trinidad) have negatively affected U.S. producers’ UAN profitability.
Recently, many proposed low-carbon ammonia projects have been announced or considered, and future hydrogen, energy, or environmental/carbon policies may support development of additional nitrogen production in locations outside North America, including Europe, Australia, India, and the Middle East.
For example, the imposition of duties, tariffs or quotas in a region can directly impact product pricing in that region, which can lead to changes in global trade flows and impact the global supply and demand balance and pricing.
However, proposed tariffs on imports into the United States, potential retaliatory tariffs on U.S. exports, and potential renegotiation of trade deals may also impact prices or trade flows.
For example, in October 2019, the European Commission (the Commission) imposed definitive anti-dumping duties on imports to the European Union (EU) of UAN manufactured in Russia, Trinidad and the United States.
The European Commission launched its five-year review of these duties in October 2024, which continues into 2025.
How long and at what level these duties will remain in effect and their long-term impact on the global market for nitrogen products are uncertain.
For example, ethanol production in the United States contributes significantly to corn demand, representing approximately 40% of total U.S. corn demand, and is impacted by federal legislation mandating renewable fuels use.
Mandated CF INDUSTRIES HOLDINGS, INC. increases in ethanol production have led to an increase in the amount of corn grown in the United States and to increased fertilizer usage for corn.
Conversely, while the current Renewable Fuel Standard encourages continued high levels of corn-based ethanol production, various interested parties have called to eliminate or reduce the renewable fuel mandate, or to eliminate or reduce corn-based ethanol as part of the renewable fuel mandate.
For example, the United Kingdom has implemented an assurance scheme beginning in 2024 to limit the use of unprotected or uninhibited urea products between January and March of every year.
In recent years, LNG export capabilities of the United States have expanded and LNG exports from the United States have increased, resulting in the United States becoming the leading exporter of LNG globally as of 2023, and such expanded capabilities and increases in exports are expected to continue following the resumption of U.S. export permitting in 2025.
Increased demand for natural gas, particularly in the Gulf Coast Region, due to increased industrial demand and increased natural gas exports, could result in increased natural gas prices.
In addition, adverse weather events, such as storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, or floods, not only can cause loss of power or other impacts to our facilities or damage to or delays in logistics capabilities disrupting our operations, but also can impact the supply of natural gas and utilities and cause prices to rise.
In contrast, we and other CF INDUSTRIES HOLDINGS, INC. fertilizer producers generally manufacture and distribute products throughout the year.
The seasonality of fertilizer demand generally results in our sales volumes and net sales being the highest during the spring and our working capital requirements to build inventory being the highest just prior to the start of the spring planting season.
Our transportation and distribution activities rely on third party providers and are subject to environmental, safety and regulatory oversight.
We rely on natural gas pipelines to transport raw materials to our manufacturing facilities.
These transportation operations, equipment and services are subject to various hazards and other sources of disruption, including adverse operating conditions CF INDUSTRIES HOLDINGS, INC. on the inland waterway system or on the seas with respect to oceangoing vessels, adverse weather conditions, system failures, unscheduled downtime, labor difficulties or shortages, shutdowns, delays, accidents such as spills and derailments, vessel groundings and other accidents and operating hazards.
These transportation operations, equipment and services are also subject to environmental, safety, and regulatory oversight.
Governmental entities could implement new or more stringent regulatory requirements affecting the transportation of raw materials or finished products.
In the United States and Canada, the railroad industry continues various efforts to limit its potential liability with respect to transportation of Toxic Inhalation Hazard materials, such as the anhydrous ammonia we transport to and from our manufacturing and distribution facilities.
These initiatives could materially and adversely affect our operating expenses and potentially our ability to transport anhydrous ammonia and increase our liability for releases of our anhydrous ammonia while in the care, custody and control of the railroads, third parties or us, for which our insurance may be insufficient or unavailable.
Our nitrogen manufacturing facilities are located at nine separate nitrogen complexes, the largest of which is the Donaldsonville complex, which represented approximately 40% of our ammonia production capacity as of December 31, 2024.
For example, our Donaldsonville and Waggaman complexes are located in an area of the United States that experiences extreme weather events, including a relatively high level of hurricane or high wind activity, and several of our other complexes are also located in areas that experience extreme weather events.
Security breaches of our systems (or the systems of our customers, suppliers or other business partners) could result in the misappropriation, destruction or unauthorized disclosure of confidential information or personal data belonging to us or to our employees, business partners, customers or suppliers, and may subject us to legal liability.

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