Indonesia plans import duties on clothing, ceramics, minister says

Reuters - 29/06
Indonesia will impose safeguard duties of 100% to 200% on imports ranging from footwear to ceramics, reviving a plan to protect domestic industries, the trade minister said.
JAKARTA, June 29 (Reuters) - Indonesia will impose safeguard duties of 100% to 200% on imports ranging from footwear to ceramics, reviving a plan to protect domestic industries, the trade minister said.
The planned import duties average more than 100%, Trade Minister Zulkifli Hasan told reporters on Friday. "If we are flooded with (imported goods), our micro, small and medium enterprises could collapse."
Southeast Asia's biggest economy issued a regulation late last year to tighten monitoring for more than 3,000 imported goods, from food ingredients to...
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