How the Export Duties on Soybean and Rapeseed Worked: Marketing-Year Results

On July 16, 2025, Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada introduced a 10% export duty on soybean and rapeseed seed, which took effect on September 4, 2025. The goal was to encourage processing oilseed crops domestically rather than exporting them as raw material. The marketing year (September 2025 – August 2026) has now produced its first results.

Rapeseed

• 📈 Domestic rapeseed processing grew 2.7-fold compared to the previous marketing year

• 🛢️ Rapeseed oil exports increased 2.5-fold

• 🌾 The share of the harvest processed domestically rose to 42% (up from just 15% a year earlier)

• 💵 Foreign-currency revenue from rapeseed oil exports more than tripled, reaching $588 million

Soybean

• 📈 The share of domestically processed soybeans rose from 39% to 54.2% — a historic high, even though the harvest itself shrank from 6.6 to 4.8 million tons

• 💵 Foreign-currency revenue from soybean oil and meal exports grew 12.3%, to $1.02 billion

Sown area and the budget

• 🌱 Rapeseed area grew +15.7%, soybean area shrank -3.9%; combined area under both crops grew from 3.25 to 3.37 million hectares

• 🏛️ Additional state budget revenue from the export duty over the marketing year reached UAH 2.174 billion

The overall conclusion from industry analysts: the duties worked as intended — domestic finished-product output is outpacing raw-material exports, employment at processing plants is growing, and growing these crops remains profitable for farmers. By some estimates, exporting processed product instead of raw material yields 30–50% more foreign-currency revenue per ton.

For processors, this means one thing: demand for domestic sunflower, rapeseed and soybean processing capacity will keep growing — and with it, the need for reliable pressing and extraction equipment.

Based on materials from agropravda.com.

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