Indonesia Plans Import Duties on Clothing, Ceramics

IMPORT - JAKARTA. 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."