Indonesia to impose blanket export ban on palm oil

Move reverses previous announcement that only cooking oil material would be banned

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Workers load palm oil fresh fruit to be transported to processing sites. © Reuters

ERWIDA MAULIA and ISMI DAMAYANTI, Nikkei staff writers

JAKARTA -- Indonesia will ban exports of all palm oil derivatives, the government said Wednesday, a reversal from an announcement made just a day earlier that the ban would apply only to products used in local production of cooking oil.

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