Consumer goods giant Unilever is in talks to merge its food business with US-based spice and seasoning company McCormick, according to a report by The Guardian.

Palm oil imports into the European Union (EU) dropped significantly between July 2025 and early March 2026 compared to the same period the previous year, reflecting an overall decline in consumption in the bloc, according to a report by Germany’s Union for the Promotion of Plants and Protein (UFOP).

The European Union (EU) could lose access to key agricultural imports from the USA if its deforestation law is introduced in its current form, according to senior US officials quoted in a Euractiv report.

A committee under the Philippine Council for Agriculture and Fisheries (PCAF) is pushing for a higher biodiesel blend that could improve vehicle mileage and cushion the impact of surging fuel prices amid the ongoing war in the Middle East, the Philippine Daily Inquirer wrote.

Brazil’s government will negotiate safety requirements for soyabean exports to China, following changes which led Cargill to cancel its Brazilian shipments to the country, according to a 17 March Reuters report.

Finnish tyre developer and manufacturer Nokian Tyres has developed a new winter tyre by mixing pine resin and canola oil into the rubber formula as part of a wider drive to reduce dependence on petroleum oils.

Canadian imports of soyabean oil reached a record volume of 800,000 tonnes in 2025/26, making it the world’s second largest importer of the commodity, according to a US Department of Agriculture (USDA) report.

Brazil’s state-run oil company Petrobras has chosen process technology specialist Topsoe as a technical provider for its new sustainable aviation plant (SAF) in Brazil.

The US administration has opened a new set of trade investigations targeting 16 trading partners – including Mexico and China – over alleged unfair trade practices and industrial overcapacity that the White House claims is undermining American manufacturing, according to a FreightWaves report.

South Korean soyabean crushing and oil production remains stagnant, according to a US Department of Agriculture (USDA) report.

Global vegetable oil prices rose in February driven by higher prices of palm, soyabean and rapeseed oils, more than offsetting lower sunflower oil quotations, according to the benchmark United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Food Price Index (FFPI) released on 6 March.

Plantation conglomerate IOI Corp is expanding into higher-margin palm oil products, according to a New Straits Times article citing a report by Public Investment Bank (PublicInvest).

Following a surge in the cost of cocoa in 2024, prices have since slumped, along with cocoa butter prices.