We don`t want that the trade barrier issue is excluded from the agenda of the two leaders` meeting in JakartaJakarta (ANTARA News) - The Turkish policy which imposes anti-dumping and safeguard mechanism fees has hampered the entry into the country of 58 items of Indonesian export goods, a businessman said.
"We have written an open letter to the government, in this case President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, so that it would discuss the trade barrier matter with Turkish President Abdullah Gul who will be visiting Indonesia tomorrow," Franky Sibarani, coordinator of the Industry Association Communication Forum, said here on Monday.
He said that his side has actually submitted the trade barrier matter when President Yudhoyono was visiting Turkey last year but the matter was not discussed.
"We don`t want that the trade barrier issue is excluded from the agenda of the two leaders` meeting in Jakarta," he said.
He said that at present there were 58 items of products in Indonesia which were affected by the anti-dumping policy fee (BMAD) by the Turkish government.
The products included polietilin terephalate (PET) which was affected by a 10.94-11,69 percent anti-dumping fee, textile and textile products 6.2-12 percent fee and apparel which is affected by safeguard mechanism by 27 percent.
Other goods such as footwear (between 1.88 and 3 dollars per pair), bicycle tires (17.8 - 33 percent) and motor cycle tires (19.6 - 29 percent) were also affected by the anti-dumping duty fees, he said.
In the open letter from the forum which was composed of 10 industry associations, the Turkish government was viewed as not meeting the WTO principles.
Therefore, in the open letter, the forum asked the assistance of the Turkish president to revoke or to exclude Indonesian goods from the anti-dumping and safeguard mechanism.
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