Drop in tariffs opens export door

摘要

Indonesian exports of clear and tinted float glass may now enter the Philippine market free from safeguard tariffs, the Trade Ministry has announced. Philippine's Trade and Industry Department and Tariff Commission issued its decision to drop a safeguard investigation that had been started in February 2019 on imports of clear and tinted float glass from all countries, including Indonesia. Srie Agustina, the acting director general of international trade at the Indonesian Trade Ministry, said that the Philippines would impose a safeguard tariff only if it could find evidence that a rise in glass imports caused serious injury or threatened injury to its domestic industry, in line with the rules set by the World Trade Organization (WTO).