Rapeseed meal export

This section covers the production, imports, and exports of rapeseed, rapeseed oil, and rapeseed meal by country. As is implied in Tables VII to XI, rapeseed can be transported as the intact seed for processing at the destination, or it can be processed at the place of origin and shipped as oil or meal. In the discussion to follow, the major rapeseed producing countries are discussed separately. 

Palm oil exporters had hoped that China would replace lagging Indian sales by raising its import quota. China officially entered the WTO on December 11, 2001. China s accession agreement stipulated that its 2002 tariff-rate quota (TRQ) on soybean oil increase to 2.518 million tons and the within-quota tariff fall from 13 percent to 9 percent. Tariffs on soybeans and soybean meal were bound at their previous rates. But ample domestic production of soybean and rapeseed oils continued to limit China s need for vegetable oil imports. 

Canada and the United States produce between 7 and 10 million metric tons of canola seed per year. Annual Canadian exports total 3-4 million metric tons of the seed, 700,000 metric tons of canola oil, and 1 million metric tons of canola meal. The United States is the net consumer of canola oil. The major customers of canola seed are Japan, Mexico, China, and Pakistan, while the bulk of canola oil and meal goes to the United States, with smaller amounts shipped to Taiwan, Mexico, China, and Europe. The world production of rapeseed oil in 2002-2003 was about 14 million metric tons. ... 

In Canada and Europe the percentage of oil yield from rapeseed is 41-42% based on an 8.5% moisture content of the seed, which is much greater than the 33-35% oil content reported for rapeseed and mustard from India and China. These large differences are attributable partly to varietal differences, but probably more importantly to relatively inefficient oil extraction procedures generally used in that part of the world which leaves about 12% of the oil with the meal. In the Asian countries of India, China, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, oil extracted from the seed is used domestically for human consumption and very little is exported. In these countries and in japan, rapeseed oil has traditionally been preferred as a cooking oil. 

In the past the European Common Market countries have imported and crushed oilseeds, mainly soybean, in order to produce large quantities of high protein meals for animal production. In recent years these countries have become partly self-sufficient in oil and meal due largely to their rape-seed production. France and West Germany are the principal exporters of rapeseed oil (Table XIV). 

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