Palm Oil Monitor

Coordinating Minister Airlangga: "The CEPA negotiation process has currently reached the stage of finalizing technical issues, fine-tuning, and developing a more detailed timeline to achieve the ratification stage of the IEU-CEPA." x.com/airlangga_hrt/…

Indonesia secures 19% rate on palm to US as Malaysia negotiates against August 1 deadline - and the difference in pricing could further tilt US demand to Indonesia ... Meanwhile Chancellor Merz and 18 farm groups demand EUDR overhaul as deadline looms palmoilmonitor.org/2025/07/24/us-…

16 major EU farm groups have called for wholesale EUDR changes. "In view of ... concerns about the EUDR’s proportionality, we stress the urgent need for a more targeted, risk-based, and practicable implementation of the EUDR..." fefac.eu/wp-content/upl…

Indonesian Vice Foreign Minister Havas: "So, we must create our own [EUDR] benchmark outside the EU. We need to establish national or international standards under platforms like CPOPC, BRICS, and FAO." ukragroconsult.com/en/news/indone…

Indonesian paper companies like APP will have no problem meeting EUDR requirements ... so it's quite obvious why the EU forest sector wants 'no risk' obligations: green protectionism. app.co.id/-/app-group-up…

Chancellor Merz has written to VDL, adding to calls for a 'zero risk' category for the EUDR. bild.de/politik/inland…

The EUDR "could potentially be more damaging to the coffee market than President Trump’s tariffs, as countries such as Ethiopia could find it difficult to comply due to clarity around land ownership." gcrmag.com/fresh-industry…

MEPs say strange things about the FTA with Indonesia: A Dutch (!) MEP questioning Indonesia's human rights record. An Irish MEP criticising imports of "palm oil, coffee, cocoa ... nickel, and rubber." Good luck sourcing those in Europe. multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreamin…

Waiting to see if this Trump announcement on Indonesia is 'real' -- or more like the Vietnam 'deal' ...

Did Trump just seal the Indonesia-EU FTA ... and make the EUDR workable for exporting countries at the same time? palmoilmonitor.org/2025/07/15/did…

EUDR de ja vu: "The next couple of months are going to be especially crucial on [the EUDR] – will the Commission hold firm, or will it bow to commercial pressures?" 12 months on and we are having the same debate about a delay and revision. confectioneryproduction.com/blog/53916/wil…

Indonesia's Trade Minister Budi Santoso: "As the IEU-CEPA nears completion, we’ve observed a more flexible position from the EU, including on the EUDR." businesstoday.com.my/2025/07/13/eu-…

Indonesia and the EU: "We have just reached a political agreement on an ambitious free trade agreement. It is a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, or CEPA as we will call it. After ten years of negotiations, we have achieved a breakthrough." ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…

"The competitiveness of palm oil [in the US] will decline against other vegetable oils such as soybean oil and rapeseed oil, especially if countries exporting these vegetable oils receive lower tariffs." reuters.com/markets/asia/i…

"The best-case [EUDR] scenario, according to Bernhuber, would be receiving a signal before the summer break that the Commission is "working on some kind of technical changes... [The Commission] has to come up with something new in September or beginning of October, because…