# Malaysia maintains April crude palm oil export duty at 8% - Markets - Business Recorder

> Malaysia kept its April crude palm oil export duty at 8% but raised the reference price to 4,331.48 ringgit per tonne from 3,977.36 in March. The duty payable rises to 346.52 ringgit per tonne. Analysts expect Indonesia to follow with a higher April export tax.

- Date: 2021-03-17 · published 2021-03-17T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: policy · region Malaysia · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/47980-malaysia-maintains-april-crude-palm-oil-export-duty-at-8-markets-business
- Commodities: [Palm Oil](https://feedsoft.ai/c/PALMOIL.md)

## Why it matters

A higher reference price signals rising export values and reflects firm palm oil prices, supporting vegetable oil costs for feed buyers.

## Read by commodity

- PALMOIL: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PALMOIL | 2023-03-23 | [Malaysia keeps April crude palm oil export duty at 8%](https://feedsoft.ai/events/15749-malaysia-keeps-april-crude-palm-oil-export-duty-at-8.md) | +0.2% | -2.7% |
| PALMOIL | 2025-09-19 | [Malaysia raises October palm oil reference price, keeps export duty at 10% - Markets - Business Recorder](https://feedsoft.ai/events/15535-malaysia-raises-october-palm-oil-reference-price-keeps-export-duty-at-10.md) | -0.3% | +0.9% |
| PALMOIL | 2024-07-19 | [Malaysia keeps August crude palm oil export duty at 8%](https://feedsoft.ai/events/15631-malaysia-keeps-august-crude-palm-oil-export-duty-at-8.md) | -0.1% | -1.0% |
| PALMOIL | 2024-04-23 | [Malaysia kept export duty on crude palm oil at 8% in May](https://feedsoft.ai/events/15652-malaysia-kept-export-duty-on-crude-palm-oil-at-8-in-may.md) | -0.1% | -4.7% |
| PALMOIL | 2023-11-24 | [Malaysia keeps December crude palm oil export duty at 8.0%](https://feedsoft.ai/events/15686-malaysia-keeps-december-crude-palm-oil-export-duty-at-8-0.md) | -0.7% | -3.3% |

## Sources

- brecorder.com: https://www.brecorder.com/news/40074592

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