Chile negotiates the entry of its fruits to Indonesia
The Chilean government will seek that its exports of fruit to Indonesia enter through the port of Jakarta, which offers greater advantages than the rest of the places established for the unloading of their products. The Director General of the Directorate of International Economic Relations of the Chilean Foreign Ministry, Paulina Nazal, told reporters that the problems for shipments of fruit to Indonesia emerged a couple of years ago and that they are negotiating a solution with the authorities of this country. .
"A couple of years ago we were experiencing income problems to our fruits, mainly, because they always went through the port of Jakarta, which is the one that interests us most by proximity and costs"He said.
But nevertheless, "for legislation that was taken out in Indonesia, we have to enter through other ports, other than Jakarta, which implies a readjustment mainly of tariffs for our exporters. What we are negotiating is trying to solve this issue".
The president of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, along with a major official delegation, arrived in Indonesia on Thursday to make a state visit this Friday that includes, among other activities, an audience with Indonesian President Joko Widodo. Nazal indicated that Bachelet's visit to Indonesia is "fundamental "to try to solve the problem that afflicts Chilean fruit exports."
"We are in a technical stage, there are the documents to verify that Chile is a safe country in the matter of treatment of their food and also that we are free of the fruit fly"He said.
On another level, the government official said that Chile and Indonesia are negotiating a free trade agreement, an agreement that is in the stage of defining tariffs for goods and the respective sanitary and phytosanitary matters, rules of origin, customs procedures and obstacles. technical to the trade.
He stressed that "Indonesia is a market that has a giant potential for Chile", Which will seek to increase its exports of fruit, wine, salmon and forest products, in addition to making an offer"a little more sophisticated"In chemical manufactures and pastes.
The first round of negotiation of the commercial agreement of goods was made in 2014, while the second was held last March and the third will be held next June in the Chilean capital with the aim of completing this process during this year.
Bachelet seeks with his visit to Indonesia to strengthen bilateral political and economic ties within the framework of the great importance that Chile gives to its relations with the nations of Southeast Asia.
The South American nation is interested in concluding the negotiations of the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) this year to reduce barriers to access to Chilean products and increase the bilateral trade balance, which reached 224 millions of dollars in 2016.
Indonesia is the fourth most populous nation in the world, with 259 million inhabitants, and the most powerful economy of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which has a population of 625 million people.
Source: freshplaza.es
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