The European Union (EU) has increased its rapeseed yield forecast for the 2023/24 marketing year to 3.34 tons per hectare, up from 3.31 tons in the April report. This is due to an increase in the rapeseed area for the fourth year in a row. However, the new EU policy to ban agricultural imports from Ukraine, including rapeseed, could impact trade. In the 2022/23 marketing year, there was a partial reorientation of rapeseed exports from Ukraine, with an increase in shipments to Romania and Poland, and a decrease in exports to Germany, Belgium, and France. This led to an increase in rapeseed stocks in Europe by the beginning of the 2023/24 marketing year. The duty-free trade between Ukraine and the EU has been extended until June 2024, but the ban on rapeseed imports to five Eastern European countries has also been extended, raising concerns about protecting the European internal market.