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Fall in refined, RBD palmolein shipments drag down India's vegetable oil imports in November
Dec-16-2025

The Solvent Extractors Association of India (SEA) in its latest report said that India's vegetable oil imports fell 28 per cent year-on-year to 11,83,000 tonne in November, the first month of the 2025-26 oil year, as compared to 16,50,000 tonne imports of vegetable oils, including edible and non-edible oils, in November 2024. The fall in vegetable oil imports driven by a sharp decline in refined, bleached and deodorised (RBD) palmolein shipments.

Overall palm oil imports declined 25 per cent to 6,32,000 tonne in November from 8,42,000 tonne a year earlier. RBD palmolein imports plunged to 3,500 tonne in November from 2,85,000 tonne a year earlier, while crude sunflower oil shipments fell to 1,42,000 tonne from 3,40,000 tonne in the same period a year ago. Crude soybean oil imports declined to 3,70,000 tonne from 4,07,000 tonne, and crude palm kernel oil imports fell to 1,850 tonne from 10,147 tonne. 

However, crude palm oil imports rose to 6,26,000 tonne from 5,47,000 tonne, while canola oil imports increased to 5,000 tonne from 22 tonne in the year-ago period. Non-edible oil imports declined to 32,877 tonne in November from 37,341 tonne a year earlier. Indonesia and Malaysia are the major suppliers of RBD palmolein and crude palm oil to India.

In November, Malaysia supplied 3,01,273 tonne of crude palm oil, while Indonesia shipped 1,23,456 tonne of crude palm oil and 3,500 tonne of RBD palmolein. India mainly imported crude soybean degummed oil from Argentina (2,35,680 tonne), Brazil (50,062 tonne) and China (69,919 tonne), while crude sunflower oil came primarily from Russia (74,020 tonne), Argentina (34,933 tonne) and Ukraine (20,000 tonne).

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