KUALA LUMPUR, March 23 (Reuters) - Malaysia has
maintained its April export tax for crude palm oil at 8% and
raised its reference price, a circular on the Malaysian Palm Oil
Board website showed on Thursday.
The world's second largest palm exporter calculated a
reference price of 4,031.45 ringgit ($914.16) per tonne for
April. The March reference price was 3710.35 ringgit a tonne.
The export tax structure starts at 3% for crude palm oil in
a 2,250 to 2,400 ringgit-per-tonne range. The maximum tax rate
is set at 8% when prices exceed 3,450 ringgit a tonne.
($1 = 4.4100 ringgit)
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