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Indonesia's palm oil export ban does not threaten EU supply: producers
The world's top palm oil producer last week imposed an export ban on raw materials for cooking oil, including several products such as refined, bleached and deodorized palm olein (RBD), crude and refined palm oil, in an attempt to lower cooking oil prices.
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Powerful alternative: Visitors inspect a biogas power plant of palm oil heavyweight PT Asian Agri in Riau in this file photo. The plant produces gas from oil palm waste and powers a nearby oil palm mill.
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span class="highlight" data-qa-component="highlight-text">Indonesia's ban on palm oil products does not raise concern for the supply of the European Union market as the bloc has reserves for several weeks, EU vegetable oil group FEDIOL said on Tuesday.
The world's top palm oil producer last week imposed an export ban on raw materials for cooking oil, including several products such as refined, bleached and deodorized palm olein (RBD), crude and refined palm oil, in an attempt to lower cooking oil prices.
The EU imports about 335,000 tonnes of crude palm oil from Indonesia on average per month, representing over 40 percent of total crude palm oil imports, FEDIOL said.
It also imports from other origins, including Malaysia, Papua New Guinea and some Latin American countries.
"There are currently 4-6 weeks of palm oil volumes available in European storage facilities and the temporary decision by the Indonesian government does not give rise to concern for the supply on the European market in the short term," FEDIOL said.
In a separate statement, the organisation had said earlier that sunflower oil supplies had improved in the EU over the past weeks as producers adapted to the shortfall in Ukrainian supplies and some sunflower oil had arrived by rail and truck.
