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Indian Subcontinent Regional Analysis

India’s Vegetable Oil Demand and Imports Both Higher in 2017/18 India’s overall vegetable oil imports reached 15.573 MMT for 2017/18 (March-April), a 9.53 percent increase from 14.217 MMT the previous year. This included 15.181 MMT of edible oil and 0.392 MMT of nonedible oil, up from 13.975 MMT and 0.242 MMT, respectively. Palm oil’s share of all edible oil imports was over 60 percent as Malaysia withdrew its export duty on that variety. India imported 9.293 MMT (crude, refined, etc.) in 2016/17, which comprised 62 percent of the total imports, and 3.795 MMT from November 2017 to March 2018 (the first five months of the oil year), up slightly from 3.553 MMT during the same period of the previous oil year. That volume of...

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