Indonesia looks to raise palm oil export quota.
Indonesia proposed raising palm oil export quotas and is considering increasing mandatory levels of biodiesel in fuel mixes to prop prices for farmers at a time when domestic palm oil inventories are high, a senior minister said.
Palm oil inventories ballooned and mills limited purchases of fresh fruit bunches (FFB) from farmers after Jakarta stopped exports of crude palm oil and some other derivatives for three weeks to May 23 in a bid to contain soaring domestic cooking oil prices.
Indonesia replace the ban with a domestic market obligation (DMO), requiring companies to supply a portion of their products to the domestic market through the government’s bulk cooking oil programme, and linked DMO volumes to companies’ export permits and quotas. Total June DMO volumes were around 270,000 tonnes, the government said.
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The government will now allow companies that have sold palm oil domestically to export seven times the amount of their domestic sales from currently five times, senior minister Luhut Pandjaitan said.
Luhut Pandjaitan, senior minister said in a statement, said:
I asked the Trade Ministry to increase the export multiplication factor to seven times starting July 1, with the main objective to increase farmer’s FFB prices significantly.
The government allocated 3.4 million tonnes of palm oil export quotas under a “transition period” after the export ban and export acceleration programme. However, shipments have been slow with Indonesian palm oil industry group GAPKI saying exports had been hampered by issues finding ships.
To sop up excess domestic inventory, the government will also exercise a plan to raise mandatory biodiesel mix levels to 35 per cent or 40 per cent, depending on crude palm oil supply and price, from 30 per cent currently, Luhut said.
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Indonesia looks to raise palm oil export quota, Jakarta, July 2, 2022
