India's palm oil imports surge 18.7% in March: SEA

14 Apr 2022 Evaluate

The Solvent Extractors' Association of India (SEA) has said that India's palm oil imports surged by 18.7 percent to 539,793 tonnes in March 2022 from 454,794 tonnes in February 2022, as traders moved to secure alternatives to sunflower oil that can no longer be bought from Ukraine.

Further, it said India imported 212,484 tonnes of sunflower oil in March, up from 152,220 tonnes in February, helped by the arrival of a few ships that had left Ukraine before the war. However, it stated, in April, as no shipment from Ukraine came, sunflower oil import may fall to nearly 80,000 tonnes, mainly arriving from Russia and Argentina only.

It said India has contracted for 45,000 tonnes of Russian sunflower oil at a record high price for shipments in April, as edible oil prices in the local market surged because of the cessation of Ukrainian supply. Besides it said India's soyoil imports in March fell to 299,421 tonnes from 376,594 tonnes a month ago. Moreover, it mentioned India has imported a record 112,576 tonnes of soyoil from the United States in the first five months of the current 2021/22 marketing year ending on October 31.

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