Pemerintah Indonesia berencana menerapkan bea masuk anti-dumping sebesar 15% pada besi untuk mencegah impor besi besar-besaran dan mendukung industri besi domestik. Indonesia bukanlah negara pertama yang memberlakukan bea masuk impor anti-dumping pada produk-produk besi. Cina menerapkan bea masuk anti-dumping pada jenis tabung-tabung stainless steel tertentu dari Jepang dan Uni Eropa (dan karenanya meningkatkan kelebihan suplai besi dunia) sementara Malaysia menerapkan bea masuk anti-dumping pada hot rolled coils yang diimpor dari Cina dan Indonesia.

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Indonesian Trade Minister Rachmat Gobel said that the continuation of economic cooperation between Indonesia and Japan, as set out in the Indonesia-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (IJEPA), is to be reviewed soon by both countries. Gobel met Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Japan’s Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Yoichi Miyazawa in Tokyo today. In the IJEPA it was mentioned that cooperation between both countries can be reviewed after the bilateral free-trade agreement had been in effect for five years.

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