From imports to impact: India's role in edible oil market trends

The global edible oil market faces major challenges. They range from volatile prices driven by climate, trade, and geopolitical shifts, to rising pressure around sustainability, changing consumer demand, supply chains stretched by global logistics and growing competition from the biofuels industry.

In 2024 palm oil flipped into a prolonged premium to its closest competitor, bean oil, for eight months, demonstrating that we are witnessing unprecedented pricing fluctuations.

In this webinar, Fastmarkets’ Managing Editor Sathia Varqa and Senior Price Reporter Regina Koh, explored this from the perspective of the Indian market. India is the world’s largest importer of edible oils with the country sourcing palm oil primarily from Indonesia and Malaysia, and soybean, sunflower and rapeseed from Argentina, Brazil, Russia, and Ukraine. It is now looking to meet growing internal demand for food and oleochemicals.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

• Supply & demand dynamics: India’s role in the market and impact on trade
• Key risks: How to lower your risk exposure
• Understand and navigate the market: Discover how Fastmarkets and Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) can boost your understanding of the market.

Watch our webinar and download the slides to explore India’s pivotal role in global vegetable oil trade and pricing.