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6/3/07 (Daily World Writer ) OLYMPIA- Coastal Caucus legislators are scrambling to remove a last-minute amendment that would prevent biodiesel companies like Imperium Renewables from using the most popular kinds of palm oil.

6/3/07 (Daily Times) ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Vanaspati Manufacturers Association (PVMA), while opposing the subsidy on ghee by the government, has said that subsidy to the Utility Stores network will only benefit 10-15% of the consumers, whereas the PVMA member units financially suffer because of intense competition within the association.

7/3/07 (Daily World writer) - The supply chain for the new biodiesel plant at the Port of Grays Harbor likely will more than double the cargo vessel traffic for Grays Harbor.

8/3/07 (The Financial express) NEW DELHI - The producers of vanaspati (hydrogenated vegetable oils) have criticised the Union Budget 2007-08 and have said that steps taken by the finance minister, P Chidambaram for regulating the prices of edible oils are neither adequate nor appropriate.

28/2/07 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Plantation firm PPB Oil Palms Bhd. said Thursday it is confident Malaysian regulators won't block its $4.3 billion merger with Singapore palm oil refiner Wilmar International Ltd.

5/3/07 New Delhi, (PTI): The Government has kept unchanged the tariff values for imported edible oils in a bid to contain prices of cooking oil in the country.

6/3/07 (Bernama) - UNITED Plantations Bhd (UPB) aims to exceed its yield target of 6 tonnes of crude palm oil (CPO) per hectare this year, after touching 5.9 tonnes previously.

3/3/07 TAMPA, Fla., (Reuters) - U.S. production of soybeans designed to produce low-trans-fat cooking oils must increase to keep rising imports of palm oil from filling food companies' demand for healthier oils, according to U.S. soybean industry representatives.

3/3/07 (The Star) - THE El Nino phenomenon experienced last year will have minimal impact on Malaysia's overall palm oil production growth this year.

2/3/07 (The Star) MIRI - Sarawak is expected to rake in RM100mil in taxes from the sale of its crude palm oil this year.

2/3/07 (Daily Express) Sandakan - Two oil palm factories were fined a total of RM60,000 by the Sessions Court here recently for committing offences under the 1974 Environmental Quality Act (EQA).

1/3/07 (The Edge News) - Crude palm oil (CPO) prices have surged sharply in the fourth quarter of 2006 (4Q06), with prices surging close to RM2,000 per tonne at present from around RM1,400-RM1,500 per tonne for much of the first three quarters of last year.