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Bolivia announces its intention to implement an ethanol blend mandate in gasoline which will begin at 10 percent and would increase gradually as the Bolivian industry increases production....

On December 13, 2017, Canada announced a new federal Regulatory Framework on the Clean Fuel Standard.

Distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS) are a byproduct of corn ethanol production. This derivative is primarily used in compound animal feeds as a vegetable based protein.

Japan is likely to finalize a determination in January, 2018, that will allow the use of U.S. corn-based ethanol in the production of bio-Ethyl Tert-Butyl Ether (ETBE) from 2018.

Ontario proposed to increase the ethanol blend mandate from 5 to 10 percent and require that the ethanol emit significantly fewer greenhouse gas emissions than petroleum gasoline.

Indonesian palm oil production is expected to benefit from favorable weather conditions in the upcoming months, fueling production increases.

Argentine bioethanol production in 2018 is forecast at 1.12 billion liters.

Post forecasts 2017/18 and 2016/17 soybean production to 105 and 114 million metric tons (mmt), respectively.

Since 2015, when the government set the overall biofuel mandate at 7.5 percent for transportation, the market has been adjusting to avoid exceeding the volumetric blending limit for biodiesel.