China Import Dominance

JAKARTA - Indonesia import value in the first semester of year 2009 reached USD 900 million, largely dominated by China, especially for electronic products.

"From the import value of USD 900 million, 30 persennya come from China, and the rest is a mix of Singapore, Hongkong, India and South Korea," said Director General of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Trade (Depdag), Diah Maulida, Wednesday (22 / 7 ).

Diah said, the realization of the total imports, approximately 70 persennya donated products by phone. While the other 30 percent, comes from a laptop product, air conditioner (AC), personal computer (PC), rice cooker, television, radio, and washing machines.

Meanwhile, also mentioned, importers of some products that supervised the implementation of impornya by Depdag RI, was also still dominated by products bermerk. Products that are Trikomsel, Okeshop, Acer and Metrodata for electronic products, while for footwear is still dominated by Bata and Nike, and textiles dominated by products that come from Levi's and Mitra Perkasa Ade.

Please note that, based on data Depdag RI, the number of registered importers and producers to importers electronics products, at this time to reach 679 overall 1509 total of five products importer. Then followed with products toys with 231 importers, food-beverage (210 importers), TPT (201 importers), and as many as 188 footwear importers.