NEW DELHI, Sept 14 (Reuters) - India's vegetable oil imports in August rose an annual 4.5 percent, with purchases of edible oils climbing higher than expected while shipments of other oils dropped, a leading trade body said on Monday.
Edible oil imports increased by 7.6 percent from a year earlier to 612,898 tonnes in August, taking the total vegetable oil purchases in the month to 650,603 tonnes, data from the Solvent Extractors' Association of India showed.
Traders had expected edible oil imports in August to rise 6.4 percent from a year earlier to 605,889 tonnes. [ID:nBOM485832]
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Vegetable oil imports in the first 10 months of the 2008/09 oil year from November rose by half to 7.07 million tonnes from a year earlier.
India, the world's leading vegetable oil importer, buys mainly palm oils from Indonesia, Malaysia and a small quantity of soyoil from Argentina and Brazil.
In August, palm oil imports were 490,404 tonnes, including 372,976 tonnes of crude palm oil, which was 4 percent higher than a year ago.
Crude soyoil imports rose 11 percent to 96,474 tonnes in August from 87,085 tonnes a year ago month.
In August, India imported 26,020 tonnes of crude sunflower oil as against no imports a year ago.
For a table on imports, please see [ID:nDEL455340]
India does not tax imports of crude edible oils and imposes a 7.5 percent duty on refined oils.
India's monthly non-edible oil import declined by 29 percent to 37,705 tonnes in August from 53,275 tonnes a year ago. (Editing by John Mair)
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