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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has maintained its April export tax for crude palm oil at 10% and raised its reference price, a circular on the Malaysian Palm Oil Board website showed on Wednesday.
The world’s second-largest palm exporter calculated a reference price of 4,547.79 ringgit per metric ton for April.
The March reference price was 4,390.37 ringgit a ton.
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The export tax structure starts at 3% for crude palm oil in a 2,250 to 2,400 ringgit-per-ton range.
The maximum tax rate is set at 10% when prices exceed 4,050 ringgit a ton.