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Md Shafiul Ather Taslim, director for finance and operation at TK Group, a leading importer and commodity processor in Bangladesh, said that new relabeled Pusti brand oil were dispatched to distributor points yesterday. It would be widely available across the country by Friday.

Biswajit Saha, director of corporate and regulatory affairs at City Group, another leading local edible oil refiner that markets the Teer brand, said, “We are still supplying soybean oil in the market at the previous price.”

He said the delivery of consignments with new prices has started. “We hope that oil will reach all retail labels within the next two to three days.”

Md Nazrul Islam, Dipankar Roy and Sushanta Ghosh contributed to this report.