INDONESIA ANGER OVER USA MOVE TO PUNISH ITS EXPORTERS OVER MEAT IMPORT CONTROLS ROW
August 1st, 2018
INDONESIA has criticised USA plans to punish its exporters over Washington claims that the south-east Asian country has failed to fully lift contested restrictions on meat and meat products have been found breaching international commerce rules by the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
The US government has requested WTO approval to raise duties on Indonesian exports to generate USD350 million’s worth of income, which it says is the amount of trade American meat exporters lost in 2017 because of continuing meat trade restrictions imposed by Jakarta. Under earlier ...
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