Inside U.S. Trade: Commerce sets preliminary duties on palm oil derivatives from Indonesia, Malaysia

July 23, 2026

The Commerce Department has preliminarily set countervailing duties as high as 16 percent on Indonesian and Malaysian imports of certain fatty acids, common inputs for consumer and industrial goods often derived from palm oil, some of which the Trump administration said would be exempt from other tariffs. ...

A representative for the “Coalition for Affordable Ingredients,” a group consisting of manufacturers that rely on imported fatty acids and others that oppose the probes, said the duties would “inflict significant harm on U.S. customers” and warned that impact could be compounded by additional trade actions. Click here to read the full story.