Selected Tag: palm oil
Selected Tag: palm oil

Playing the Palm Oil Price Game 

Palm oil’s brief premium over soft oils has faded as supply improves, demand eases and biodiesel economics weaken. With prices retreating and forecasts turning overheated, India faces a timely policy choice on duties and domestic growers’ interests.

G. Chandrashekhar

November 20, 2025 at 7:42 AM IST

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Fixed Vegetable Oil Tariffs: A Recipe for Market Distortion

Locking vegetable oil tariffs for years would rob policymakers of flexibility, harm consumers and farmers, and chiefly benefit refiners.

G. Chandrashekhar

October 18, 2025 at 4:51 AM IST

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Does Sustainable Palm Oil Deserve Any Concession?

Producers of certified sustainable palm oil seek duty relief, but there is little justification for any fiscal concession in the present circumstances

G. Chandrashekhar

October 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM IST

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