Indonesia’s Commodity Export Plan: What We Know So Far
KEY POINTS On 20 May 2026, President Prabowo Subianto announced that the Government of Indonesia has issued a Government Regulation (Peraturan Pemerintah, or PP) on…
Draft Regulation on Commodities and SOEs: The Text
Draft Government Regulation on the Governance of Exports of Strategic Natural Resource Commodities Through State-Owned Enterprises [Unofficial English translation of unofficial circulating draft text; download…
ANALYSIS: Oleochemicals in EUDR is Industrial Policy, not Environmentalism
Brussels added palm-based soap and a list of oleochemicals to the EUDR on 4 May. Six days earlier, two EU chemical industry trade bodies had…
Competition or Protection? US Antidumping Hits Fatty Acids
The United States has launched antidumping and countervailing duty investigations into imports of fatty acids from Indonesia and Malaysia. The case was set off in…
Indonesia seeks WTO retaliation after EU misses RED deadline
Indonesia goes to retaliation Trade Minister Budi Santoso confirmed on 7 March that Indonesia has formally requested WTO authorisation retaliate against the EU’s failure to…
What the EU’s Fertiliser Trade Ban Could Mean for Palm Oil
Possibly the most overlooked story in trade and agriculture right now is about fertiliser. Specifically: The EU is all set to introduce new sanctions on…
EUDR Delay Prompts New Rifts; RSPO Rifts Stay the Same
Splits Deepen Over EUDR Delay Proposal Internal divisions within the European Union over the implementation of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) appear to be intensifying….
ANALYSIS: Breaking Down the IEUCEPA
The signing of the Indonesia-EU free trade agreement brought a big round of optimism for EU-Southeast Asia relations, and particularly for trade in palm oil….
ANALYSIS: What Next for EUDR?
In the past 24 hours some new developments indicate the likelihood of larger changes to the EUDR. The simple version is that the European parliament…
EPP Takes Victory Lap, Greens Bark Up Wrong Tree on EUDR
EUDR Delay Fallout The Commission’s proposed delay of the EUDR has – as we noted last week – won considerable praise from the European People’s…
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