The duties were imposed after Australia conducted an investigation into dumping accusations levelled at Indonesia’s products. In April, Australia said it would apply a dumping fee on A4 paper imported from Indonesia and three other countries. The move led to a decline in Indonesia’s paper exports to the country of up to 36.8 per cent. Pradnyawati, the Trade Ministry’s director for trade security, said Indonesia had tried a diplomatic approach to solve the problem, but Australia offered no response and kept going on with its investigation. “Therefore, the Indonesian government decided to take the issue to the WTO,” she said as quoted by kontan.co.id.

Source: The Nation Bangkok September 08, 2017 18:11 UTC