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After having warned the European Union that Malaysia would retaliate if it continued with its ban on Malaysian palm oil, Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today said that one of the retaliatory measures could be Malaysia switching to China for its fighter jets.

In response to Jakarta’s objection to a European Union bill that would cap the use of palm-oil-based biofuels in the region, the bloc explained that the regulation was not meant to target specific biofuels or feedstocks, but was based on deforestation data from 2008 to 2015 that showed large a proportion of the deforestation was associated with palm oil.

European Union (EU) countries that are vilifying palm oil are trying to impoverish the nation and it is time for Malaysia to retaliate, says Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

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Oil prices kicked off the week's trading with losses as concerns of a sharp economic slowdown outweighed supply disruptions from OPEC's production cutbacks and U.S. sanctions on Iran and Venezuela

The European Commission’s latest draft regulation has many in the country concerned whether palm oil producers are fighting a losing war. Worse still, plantation companies already suffered a blow to their earnings last year.

The Department of Agriculture has renewed its call to ban the entry of imported palm oil from Malaysia and Indonesia into the country as local coconut farmers reel from “extremely low prices” of copra.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 21): Malaysian palm oil futures hit a more than two week high on Thursday, as easing concerns about high output and expectations of better export demand buoyed investor sentiment.

Malaysia and Indonesia, which account for a combined 85 per cent of the global palm oil supply, have warned that millions of farmers risk losing their livelihoods if the European Union stops using the commodity in its biofuels.

PUTRAJAYA (March 21): Thirty-one producers of palm oil-based products have agreed to put the "Sayangi Sawitku” labels on their products in support of the Government’s “Love My Palm Oil” campaign.

KUALA LUMPUR: The price of crude palm oil (CPO) has seen an increase in the first two months of the year, the Dewan Rakyat was told today.

Indonesia has said it is now reviewing negotiations over the Indonesia-European Union Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IEU-CEPA) in response to a recent European Union proposal to put a cap on palm oil-based