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Senegal invites Indonesia to build palm oil refinery

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, LONDON -- Senegal has invited Indonesia to build a palm oil refinery to meet its domestic needs, which reach 150 million tons per year, a Senegalese minister stated.Senegalese Minister of Commerce, Informal Sector, Local Product Consumption and Production and Small and Medium Enterprises Alioune Sarr made the remarks while receiving Indonesian Ambassador to Senegal Mansyur Pangeran to explore...

A worker checks the quality of crude palm oil (CPO) in a state CPO processing unit at Indonesia's North Sumatra province May 29, 2012.

Minister states that govt not to revise CPO export tax

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - The government would not revise or cut the exit tax of its crude palm oil (CPO) exports, although Malaysia had revised for the September-October 2014 period following CPO price fall, a minister stated. "We have our own regulations, so we cannot cut exit tax. We will continue with the current  regulations," affirmed Minister of Trade Muhammad Lutfi...