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TABLE-India's 2012/13 Vegoil Imports up 4.7 Pct Y/Y-Trade
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16/11/2013 (Reuters) - India's vegetable oil imports for the year ended on Oct. 31 rose 4.7 percent to 10.67 million tonnes from the previous year, trade data showed on Friday.

The annual imports included 10.38 million tonnes of edible oils and 0.29 million tonnes of non-edible oils, the Solvent Extractors' Association (SEA) data showed. India is the world's leading edible oil importer.

In October, vegetable oil imports rose 18 percent to 1.02 million tonnes from a month ago. The monthly imports included 16,758 tonnes of non-edible oils.

 Table below gives data on India's edible oil imports.
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EDIBLE OIL IMPORTS (in tonnes)
OIL YEAR 2012/13 (November-October)
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Month      RBD      Crude   Crude    Soy      Other     Total
palm     palm    palm     oil       oils
olein      oil   olein (degummed)
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Oct'13  154,342    613,353  ---    97,023   140,507   1005,225
Sep'13  167,601    452,784  ---   140,971    72,499    833,855
Aug'13  143,215    378,662  ---   127,699    79,460    729,036
Jul'13  213,853    354,401  ---   234,650    71,799    874,703
Jun'13  296,230    353,542        138,849   122,470    911,091
May'13  373,837    382,034  ---    52,392    83,803    892,066
Apr'13  253,489    233,987  ---    50,999   102,852    641,327
Mar'13  137,407    558,810  ---    46,990   107,699    850,906
Feb'13  116,237    669,678  ---    62,585   105,676    954,176
Jan'13  153,060    721,258  ---   103,033   155,280   1132,631
Dec'12  137,475    636,113  ---    21,960    87,941    883,489
Nov'12   76,519    534,556  ---    14,160    50,999    676,234
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Total 2,223,265  5,889,178  --- 1,091,311 1,180,985 10,384,739
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* Others included 973,126 T crude sunflower oil imports.
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EDIBLE OIL IMPORTS (in tonnes)
OIL YEAR 2011/12 (November-October)
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Month      RBD      Crude   Crude     Soy      Other     Total
palm     palm    palm      oil      oils
olein    oil     olein  (degummed)
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Oct'12   61,544   768,336   ----    92,034   96,199  1,018,113
Sep'12  111,163   722,754   ----    59,000   83,500    976,417
Aug'12   79,486   620,192   ----   110,758   71,833    882,269
Jul'12  112,611   486,517   ----   156,720   92,381    848,229
Jun'12  127,619   381,613   ----   139,794  120,895    769,885
May'12  165,426   520,451   ----    62,500  135,033    883,410
Apr'12  97,547    414,590   ----   216,509  168,758    897,404
Mar'12  186,788   278,696   ----   100,615  136,236    702,335
Feb'12  304,048   359,624   ----    78,537  131,104    873,313
Jan'12  114,033   392,910   ----    47,150   93,600    647,693
Dec'11  107,041   436,789   500      7,387  102,997    654,714
Nov'11  110,050   611,193   ----     8,000   98,441    827,684
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*Total 1,577,356  5,993,665  500  1,079,004 1,330,941 9,981,466
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*Others included 1,134,881 T of crude sunflower oil imports.
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SOURCE: SEA, Mumbai