21 September 2021 – U.S. Customs and Border Protection has found that a group of cabinet importers is evading antidumping and countervailing duty orders on Chinese products by transshipping them through Malaysia. The story begins in April 2020, when the Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association won one of the largest anti-dumping cases ever brought against China. The ITC unanimously found…
25 March 2021 – Indonesia’s booming e-commerce sales have attracted investment from international logistics players. Like other Asia Pacific countries it experienced “unprecedented” e-commerce growth last year when Covid hit, with online sales surging 37% to $25bn, according to GlobalData. To cater for the rising demand, Singapore-based e-commerce specialist J&T Express announced this week it had launched…
22nd November – 2020 ABU DHABI, (WAM) — Via teleconference, the United Arab Emirates and the Republic of Indonesia signed an Action Plan for a mutual recognition arrangement on the Authorised Economic Operator Program, AEO, in a step to facilitate inter-countries trade, effective and swift implementation of program mutual recognition agreement under the umbrella of…
By Mohd Aamir Dec 4 2019 / Emirates News Agency DUBAI, 4th December, 2019 (WAM) — A Memorandum of Understanding was recently signed between Customs World, a subsidiary of the Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation, and the Indonesian Logistics and Forwarders Association, to share information that benefits both parties in order to boost the…
Oct 16 2019 / The Marine Times Executive South Korea and Indonesia have reached a preliminary trade deal equivalent to a free trade agreement but also including broader economic cooperation. The agreement is expected to help boost trade between the two nations by nearly 50 percent by 2022. The move is part of South Korea’s…
By Viriya Singgih Aug 2 2019 / Bloomberg Indonesia’s crackdown on waste imports is backfiring with its plastic recycling industry in disarray and hundreds of containers of used materials clogging its ports. Authorities ordered close scrutiny of trash imports after random inspections in May led to the discovery of more than 80 containers of illegal…
Vincent LinggaThe Jakarta Post Jakarta / Mon, January 7, 2019 / 09:16 am Customs and excise offices are not popular institutions in many countries as they are deemed to be notoriously corrupt. Even the Bible negatively perceives customs collectors as sinners, as in the story of Zacchaeus, who later was happily reformed and…
Given the extensive and wildly enthusiastic press coverage which greeted AEC 2015, the economic cooperation agreement between the ten ASEAN nations which came into effect on Jan 1 2016, one could be forgiven for thinking that the skies across the region would by now be being criss-crossed by eager executives of the world’s largest companies,…
A company director was sentenced by the State Courts on 9 July 2015 to a fine of $434,000 for customs offences. Tok Beng Tong, 42, a Singaporean, pleaded guilty to 58 customs offences including submitting false statements and declarations in applications for back-to-back certificates of origin (CO), and import and export permits. Another 119 charges…
