Anhydrous Milk Fat (AMF), Butteroil & Ghee

AMF at 99.8% milkfat in nitrogen-flushed 210 kg drums, butteroil, and ghee in 15-18 kg tins

Anhydrous milk fat (AMF) is milkfat from which almost all the water and non-fat solids have been removed, and Codex CXS 280-1973 sets the figures it is bought on. AMF and anhydrous butteroil carry 99.8% milkfat minimum and 0.1% water maximum, with free fatty acids at 0.3% as oleic acid and peroxide value at 0.3 milliequivalents of oxygen per kg of fat maximum; milkfat, butteroil and ghee carry 99.6% milkfat minimum, with free fatty acids at 0.4% and peroxide value at 0.6; and all of them are held to 0.05 mg/kg copper and 0.2 mg/kg iron. Ghee is made by the same near-total removal of water and non-fat solids from milk, cream or butter, but with an especially developed flavour and physical structure. Codex permits airtight containers flushed with inert gas, and producers use them: one New Zealand GDT specification for regular-grade AMF, written at 99.8% milkfat, 0.1% moisture by Karl Fischer, 0.3% free fatty acids, 0.3 meq O2/kg peroxide value and a 1,000 cfu/g aerobic plate count, packs 210 kg net in a closed-head drum lined with food-grade resin with a nitrogen-filled headspace, allows transport and storage without refrigeration, and gives 12 months from manufacture kept cool and dry. GDT also sells AMF in 1,000 kg bins, and at its event of 15 September 2026 AMF averaged USD 5,739/MT, 3.0% below the previous event, with Oceania regular-grade 210 kg drums at USD 5,640-5,770 by contract month. AMF, butteroil and ghee are declared under HS 0405.90: the HS subheading note keeps ghee and dehydrated butter out of butter under 0405.10, and vegetable ghee is a vegetable fat classified in Chapter 15. UN Comtrade 2024 export declarations under HS 0405.90 total USD 2.75 billion from 90 reporters: New Zealand USD 1.08 billion and 170,000 MT, the Netherlands USD 558 million and 68,000 MT, Belgium USD 213 million, France USD 175 million, Germany USD 172 million, India USD 162 million and 24,700 MT, the UK USD 118 million and Spain USD 69 million, with Pakistan declaring about USD 1.2 million.

The AMF buyer is a recombining plant making recombined dairy products from powder and fat, a chocolate or confectionery maker, a bakery or a processed cheese plant; ghee goes to packers, distributors, caterers and food manufacturers. India's 2024 declarations send most of its ghee and butteroil to the UAE at USD 38.7 million, Saudi Arabia at USD 33.5 million and the USA at USD 19.1 million, with smaller amounts to Australia, Singapore and Indonesia, and Comtrade 2024 import declarations under HS 0405.90 show China at USD 209 million, Mexico at USD 164 million, the Philippines at USD 108 million, Indonesia, Thailand and Saudi Arabia at about USD 70 million each, Malaysia at USD 61 million and Egypt at USD 44 million. CBIL is a commodity brokerage company and brokers AMF and butteroil from dairy co-operatives and processors in New Zealand and the European Union, and ghee from producers in India, Pakistan and New Zealand, against the producer's certificate of analysis for milkfat, moisture, free fatty acids and peroxide value. Ghee moves in tins and tubs as well as retail jars: Indian producers sell 15 kg tins, and one New Zealand producer packs ghee in 18 kg tins and 10 litre tubs for foodservice and bulk buyers. AMF can travel without refrigeration where the producer's specification allows it, though storage life depends on temperature. The documents are the producer's certificate of analysis; a dairy health certificate from the origin's competent authority, which in the GCC format attests that the milk came from healthy animals under official veterinary inspection and was handled in an establishment under official control; a halal certificate from a certifier the importing country accepts; and a certificate of origin. The GCC Guide for Control on Imported Foods lists GSO 1376 for butteroil and AMF and GSO 333 for ghee, and for Saudi Arabia the exporter is registered with the SFDA as a foreign establishment and the product is registered through the importer's SFDA account. Prices follow the GDT AMF result for the contract month and are quoted FCA, FOB, CFR or CIF; minimum lots are confirmed per product and pack. Send the product, the grade and pack, the monthly volume and the destination port.

Excluded origins are not offered, including product re-exported, blended or re-processed through a third country. Every lot moves with a certificate of origin naming the producing plant, mine or grower country, and nothing is quoted before the seller and loading point are known.