# Malaysia’s B10 policy hindered by high palm oil prices  : The Daily Digest

> Malaysia's B10 biodiesel mandate is being held back by price, with biodiesel at about $2.94 per litre versus $1.60 for diesel. Consumers would bear the cost gap, and the plantations minister has asked the palm oil board to start B15 trials.

- Date: 2017-08-07 · published 2017-08-07T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: policy · region Malaysia · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/69319-malaysia-s-b10-policy-hindered-by-high-palm-oil-prices-the-daily-digest
- Commodities: [Palm Oil](https://feedsoft.ai/c/PALMOIL.md)

## Why it matters

High palm oil prices make the B10 mandate uneconomic, which slows domestic palm oil absorption into biodiesel. Delay keeps more palm oil available for export.

## Read by commodity

- PALMOIL: bearish ▼

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PALMOIL | 2017-12-08 | [Palm oil beat down vegetable oil prices  : The Daily Digest](https://feedsoft.ai/events/12715-palm-oil-beat-down-vegetable-oil-prices-the-daily-digest.md) | -1.3% | +6.4% |
| PALMOIL | 2017-08-24 | [Malaysian palm oil prices may lose support following US import duty decision  : The Daily Digest](https://feedsoft.ai/events/69556-malaysian-palm-oil-prices-may-lose-support-following-us-import-duty-decision.md) | +0.1% | +6.0% |
| PALMOIL | 2021-09-13 | [High palm oil prices delay Indonesia’s B40 plans](https://feedsoft.ai/events/44939-high-palm-oil-prices-delay-indonesia-s-b40-plans.md) | +0.8% | +13.3% |
| PALMOIL | 2020-09-08 | [Indonesia looking to change palm oil levy policy to raise more funds  : The Daily Digest](https://feedsoft.ai/events/51009-indonesia-looking-to-change-palm-oil-levy-policy-to-raise-more-funds-the-daily.md) | +1.1% | -4.1% |
| PALMOIL | 2020-03-16 | [Malaysia to cut CPO export tax to 5% in April following lower prices in Q1  : The Daily Digest](https://feedsoft.ai/events/54011-malaysia-to-cut-cpo-export-tax-to-5-in-april-following-lower-prices-in-q1-the.md) | -1.5% | -4.6% |

## Sources

- biofuelsdigest.com: https://biofuelsdigest.com/malaysias-b10-policy-hindered-by-high-palm-oil-prices/

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