India's domestic oil industry had asked GOI to raise both the duty on imported oil along with the differential between the crude and refined oils duties to 15 percent. However, the government decided to take a different approach. Vegoil Import Duty Slashed; Imports Rising In September 2016, the government of India (GOI) reduced the import duties on wheat and vegetable oil. Although the country is going to produce a record kharif oilseed crop of 23.363 MMT, an approximate 40.8 percent increase against 16.5 MMT last year, oil demand is likely to be higher during the festival season. In addition, the new stocks from domestic sources may not be available in the market any time soon. However, the lower duty will help keep prices down. GOI had...
Inflation is back in the driver’s seat, and agriculture is getting pulled in two directions. A stronger dollar is pressuring grains despite fresh Chinese buying, while renewed Middle East attacks lift crude oil. Higher energy prices can support commodities, but they also raise expenses an...
Regional News European grocery stores have been targeted by cybersecurity attacks this week, with major retailers in France and the Netherlands affected. In France, major grocers, including Carrefour, Intermarché, and Coopérative U, all suffered attacks in which freezer and...
Key Takeaways: The EPA has proposed reallocating 770 million RINs associated with Small Refinery Exemptions (SREs), either splitting the volume equally between 2026 and 2027 or assigning the full amount to 2027. The agency granted exemptions covering 1.76 billion RINs for 2025, substantially e...
From WPI Consulting
Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.