Indonesia: Altered import and export restrictions for agricultural products

Announcement

28 Jan 2016

In January 2016, the government of Indonesia announced an alteration to its export prohibitions. The regulation 05/2016 came into force on the day of its announcement.
On 16 August 2016, the Ministry of Trade published regulation 59/M-DAG/PER/8/2016 scrapping the above-mentioned regulation on the very same day. In the preamble, the Ministry argued this was necessary to "improve the effectiveness of the export and import policy" (own translation). Hence, this measure is no longer classified as implemented.

The regulation 59/2016 was later amended by regulation 13/2017, however, without any substantial changes.

Source

Number of interventions

1 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

2 liberalising

List of interventions

Implementation date

28 Jan 2016

Revocation date:

15 Aug 2016

Updated: 28 Jan 2016

Import ban

<div> <p>Nevertheless, when comparing the appendices of the two regulations regarding which agricultural products may be imported, products under the HS code 1603 ("<em>Extract...

Implementation date

28 Jan 2016

Revocation date:

15 Aug 2016

Updated: 28 Jan 2016

Import licensing requirement

<div> <p>Furthermore, importers of the products listed in the appendix will no longer require a agricultural products import license. Instead, the approval from the Ministry of Trade will...

Updated: 28 Jan 2016

Export-related non-tariff measure, nes

<div> <p>On 28 January 2016, the Indonesian Ministry of Trade issued regulation 05/M-DAG/PER/1/2016, amending the country's regulations on importing agricultural products. The amendm...