Government urged to control flood of textile imports from China

The Indonesian Textile Association (API) called on the government to further regulate imports hitting the domestic industry with losses. Cheap imported textile products continue to flood the market. Ade Sudrajat,the chairman of API, said that the domestic market was expected to continue to be flooded with imported products in the next two to three years. He told Jakarta Post to protect the domestic market, imported textile products have to be managed and so does the illegal smuggling of used clothes.
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Ade gave suggestion to the government that government could control the wave of textile imports, primarily from China, by setting a reference price. Achmad Sigit Dwiwahjono, the ministry's director general for chemicals, textile and miscellaneous industry said that there should be a new policy to support the industry to control textile imports.