The price of edible oils such as soyoil, sunflower oil and rapeseed oil is expected to rise after\u00a0Indonesia\u00a0announced a surprise export palm oil ban, experts have warned.<\/p>\n
Major edible oils are already in short supply due to adverse weather and Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. The move by Indonesia to pause exports will place extra strain on cost-sensitive consumers in Asia and Africa hit by higher fuel and food prices.<\/p>\n
\u201cIndonesia\u2019s decision affects not only palm oil availability, but vegetable oils worldwide,\u201d James Fry, chairman of commodities consultancy LMC International, told Reuters.<\/p>\n
Palm oil \u2013 used in everything from cakes and frying fats to cosmetics and cleaning products \u2013 accounts for nearly 60% of global vegetable oil shipments, and top producer Indonesia accounts for around a third of all vegetable oil exports. It announced the export ban on 22 April, until further notice, in a move to tackle rising domestic prices.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is happening when the export tonnages of all other major oils are under pressure: soya bean oil due to droughts in South America; rapeseed oil due to disastrous canola crops in Canada; and sunflower oil because of Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine,\u201d Fry said.<\/p>\n
Rasheed JanMohd, chairman of Pakistan Edible Oil Refiners Association (PEORA) said: \u201cNobody can compensate for the loss of Indonesian palm oil. Every country is going to suffer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vegetable oil prices have already risen more than 50% in the past six months as factors from labour shortages in Malaysia to droughts in Argentina and Canada \u2013 the biggest exporters of soyoil and canola oil respectively \u2013 curtailed supplies.<\/p>\n
Buyers were hoping a bumper sunflower crop from top exporter Ukraine would ease the tightness, but supplies from Kyiv have stopped as a result of Russia\u2019s invasion.<\/p>\n
This had prompted importers to bank on palm oil being able to plug the supply gap until Indonesia\u2019s shock ban delivered a \u201cdouble whammy\u201d to buyers, said Atul Chaturvedi, president of trade body the Solvent Extractors Association of India (SEA).<\/p>\n Importers such as Solvent Extractors Association of India (SEA) will try to increase palm oil purchases from Malaysia, but the world\u2019s second-biggest palm oil producer cannot fill the gap created by Indonesia, Chaturvedi said. Malaysia accounts for 31% of global palm oil supply, second after Indonesia\u2019s 56%.<\/p>\n Indonesia typically supplies nearly half of India\u2019s total palm oil imports, while Pakistan and Bangladesh import nearly 80% of their palm oil from Indonesia.<\/p>\n In February, prices of vegetable oils jumped to a record high as sunflower oil supplies were disrupted from the Black Sea region.<\/p>\n A state-backed Malaysian palm oil group said countries should pause or slow use of edible oil as biofuel to ensure adequate supply for use in food, warning of a supply crisis following Indonesia\u2019s ban on palm oil exports.<\/p>\n Palm oil is also used as biodiesel feedstock. Indonesia and Malaysia make it mandatory for biodiesel to be mixed with a certain amount of palm oil \u2013 30% and 20% respectively \u2013 and just last month said they remain committed to those mandates, despite higher palm prices.<\/p>\n With Reuters<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The price of edible oils such as soyoil, sunflower oil and rapeseed oil is expected to rise after\u00a0Indonesia\u00a0announced a surprise export palm oil ban, experts have warned. Major edible oils are already in short supply due to adverse weather and Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. The move by Indonesia to pause exports will place extra strain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":20796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,12],"tags":[1648,4173,5274,6108,8348,6983,7358,11395,6573,1953,7489,8051,8440,12814,12384,9127,6496,10426,6569,12138,12773,5440,8124,10954,5252,5342,1828,8566,5441,1761,3042,6110,3805,12103,10390,3457,6109,6066,10329,5180,5251,9085,3954,36,6974],"class_list":["post-20795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-world-news","tag-africa","tag-argentina","tag-asia","tag-atul-chaturvedi","tag-ban","tag-bangladesh","tag-bank","tag-biofuel","tag-black","tag-canada","tag-chairman","tag-consumers","tag-crisis","tag-export-ban","tag-exporters","tag-february","tag-food","tag-food-prices","tag-fuel","tag-import","tag-increase","tag-india","tag-indonesia","tag-international","tag-invasion","tag-kyiv","tag-labour","tag-malaysia","tag-oil","tag-oil-prices","tag-pakistan","tag-palm-oil","tag-president","tag-price","tag-prices","tag-russia","tag-solvent-extractors-association-of-india-sea","tag-sunflower-oil","tag-trade","tag-ukraine","tag-war","tag-weather","tag-will","tag-world","tag-worldwide"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}