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In mid-November, the United State International Trade Commission (USITC) initiated the dumping accusation on a polyester textured filament yarn (PTY) from Indonesia. Secretary General of the Indonesian Association of Fiber and Filament Yarn Producers (APSyFI), Redma Gita Wirawasta, suspects that this accusation was due to exports made by the Bonded Logistics Center (PLB) company to the United States in 2019.

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After a meeting with President Jokowi last week, emergency response measures to rescue the national textile industry left a revised agenda for PERMENDAG 64 of 2017 and an evaluation of the presence of textiles at the Bonded Logistics Center (PLB). The Indonesian Association of Textile Experts (IKATSI) considers that these two agendas still need to be guarded so that the interests of the importers' merchant groups are not interrupted.

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The National Textile Industry Rescue Study Team of the Indonesian Textile Experts Association stated that the growth rate of the national textile and textile product (TPT) industry in the second quarter could not be used as a benchmark for the current TPT industry.

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The flood of imports of textiles and textile products (TPT) caused the domestic textile industry sluggish. Local TPT cannot be absorbed by the domestic market because it has no competitiveness when paired with imported products. As a result, several textile companies went out of business because they could no longer produce.