Romania loses new sunoil export markets, due to lower availability of sunseed

Romanian crushers may face a tight sunseed availability on the local market. Robust export demand and firm local bids direct sunseed more to exports, limiting the high potential of local crushing and refining.

Thus, shipments of sunoil have dropped last season and Romania has lost some new export destinatios vs. cheaper other Black Sea alternatives. The country risks to slide from value-added sunoil market back toward raw sunseed exports, as competition between local crushers and exporters is intensifying.