# At WTO, main palm oil producers tell EU to suspend biofuel sustainability measure | AGENCE EUROPE

> Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Costa Rica and Colombia asked the EU to suspend its biofuel sustainability measure at a WTO Goods Council meeting on April 15. The European Commission replied that the measure aims to cut transport carbon and bans no specific biofuel.

- Date: 2019-04-15 · published 2019-04-15T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: trade · region EU · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/59611-at-wto-main-palm-oil-producers-tell-eu-to-suspend-biofuel-sustainability
- Commodities: [Palm Oil](https://feedsoft.ai/c/PALMOIL.md)

## Why it matters

The dispute keeps uncertainty over EU palm oil biofuel demand alive, which weighs on palm oil prices, though no immediate change in the measure has occurred.

## Read by commodity

- PALMOIL: bearish ▼

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PALMOIL | 2019-12-15 | [Palm oil, EU remains confident despite Jakarta's complaint to WTO \| AGENCE EUROPE](https://feedsoft.ai/events/55612-palm-oil-eu-remains-confident-despite-jakarta-s-complaint-to-wto-agence-europe.md) | +0.8% | +8.9% |
| PALMOIL | 2021-05-28 | [Malaysia to escalate EU palm oil dispute at WTO \| Malay Mail](https://feedsoft.ai/events/46981-malaysia-to-escalate-eu-palm-oil-dispute-at-wto-malay-mail.md) | -1.7% | -12.4% |
| PALMOIL | 2017-09-13 | [Under EU Attack, Top Palm Oil Producers Rethink Trade Strategy](https://feedsoft.ai/events/68834-under-eu-attack-top-palm-oil-producers-rethink-trade-strategy.md) | -0.6% | -4.5% |
| PALMOIL | 2019-02-11 | [EU to tighten palm oil for biofuels rules](https://feedsoft.ai/events/60633-eu-to-tighten-palm-oil-for-biofuels-rules.md) | -1.4% | -7.5% |
| PALMOIL | 2026-04-23 | [European Union and Certain Member States — Certain Measures Concerning Palm Oil and Oil Palm Crop-Based Biofuels (Malaysia); European Union — Certain Measures Concerning Palm Oil and Oil Palm Crop-Based Biofuels (Indonesia), Panel Report \| American Journal of International Law \| Cambridge Core](https://feedsoft.ai/events/15479-european-union-and-certain-member-states-certain-measures-concerning-palm-oil.md) | -0.4% | -1.0% |

## Sources

- agenceurope.eu: https://agenceurope.eu/en/bulletin/article/12237/27/at-wto-main-palm-oil-producers-tell-eu-to-suspend-biofuel-sustainability-measure

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