Policy News

19 Nov 2024 | Min Jie Yaw
Malaysia raised its crude palm oil (CPO) reference price for December to 4,471.39 ringgit ($1,059) per tonne, according to a circular issued by the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) on Tuesday November 19.
19 Nov 2024 | Min Jie Yaw
China will cut the export tax rebate of 13% for chemically modified animal, plant or microbial oils and fats, including used cooking oil (UCO) and aluminium and copper products, in a statement by the country's Ministry of Finance on Friday November 15.
The Ukrainian government has released the minimum export prices for a list of agricultural goods in an official document from the country’s Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food seen by Fastmarkets on Monday November 11.
8 Nov 2024 | Min Jie Yaw
Palm oil exports from Indonesia, the world’s largest producer of palm oil, are expected to post year-on-year declines in 2024-2025 on the back of higher domestic consumption and a mixed outlook for production, a senior official from the Indonesian Palm Oil Association (Gapki) said on Friday November 8.
25 Oct 2024 | Anna Platonova
Russia’s sunflower oil export duty has risen above zero for the first time in 18 months, while the sunflower meal export duty has reached its highest since April 2024, according to an update from the country’s Agriculture Ministry on Friday October 25.
21 Oct 2024 | Regina Koh
Malaysia's Ministry of Finance (MoF) released an appendix late on Friday October 18 evening detailing its proposed revision of the export duty rates for crude palm oil (CPO) that was announced on the same day.
18 Oct 2024 | Min Jie Yaw, Regina Koh
Malaysia will raise its windfall tax threshold for palm oil and amend the market price structure and crude palm oil (CPO) export duty rate from November 1, the government said as part of its Budget 2025 announcement on Friday October 18.
14 Oct 2024 | Agricensus staff
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4 Oct 2024 | Regina Koh
India is targeting to boost its domestic edible oil production to 25.45 million tonnes by 2030/31, following the approval of the National Mission on Edible Oils and Oilseeds (NMEO-Oilseeds), the government said in a statement issued in the late evening on Thursday October 3.
25 Sep 2024 | Tim Worledge
A minister in the Indian government has approved the import of as much as 200,000 tonnes of duty-free corn following a meeting with representatives of the poultry sector in the country’s Andhra Pradesh state, trade and media sources reported on Wednesday September 25.
25 Sep 2024 | Anna Platonova
Russia’s sunflower meal export duty has risen to another record high for the period since April this year, but sunflower oil export duty will remain at nil in October of the 2024/25 season, which started on September 1, according to an update from the country’s Agriculture Ministry on Wednesday September 25.