Palm oil prices are expected to decline as production recovers and demand weakens. In 2024, palm oil futures surged 20% due to supply disruptions in Indonesia and Malaysia. However, inventories are set to rise as buyers shift to cheaper alternatives like soybean and sunflower oils. India’s palm oil imports could drop to a five-year low,…
In order to guarantee sufficient supply of molasses for regional ethanol manufacturers, the government on Tuesday declared a 50% export charge on the commodity. Additionally, the import duties on edible oils were prolonged by an additional year. The current import levy on refined and crude edible oils, such as sunflower, soy, and palm, has been…
As a result of reduced import tariffs, India’s imports of edible oils—palm, soybean, and sunflower—rose 17% year over year to a record 16.47 million tonne (MT) in the 2022–2023 oil year (November–October), according to the trade association Solvent Extractors Association of India (SEA). The amount of these cooking oils imported peaked in 2016–17 at 15.1…
Even though shipments into the country climbed by 22% during that time, the palm group of oils remained to dominate the vegetable oil import basket, making up 63% of all imports from November 2022 to March 2023 of the current oil year to October. Data from the Solvent Extractors’ Association of India (SEA) show that…
A representative of the economic coordinating Ministry said Indonesia intends to increase its reference price for crude palm oil from $898.29 per tonne in the first half of the month to $932.69 per tonne for the period of April 1630. The pricing would increase Indonesia’s crude palm oil export tax from its existing rate of $80 per…
