Slashing Invisible Cost

The government has issued a new policy on fertilizer distribution. Can levies to producers be cut?

March 18, 2003

MINISTER of Trade & Industry Rini M.S. Soewandi has never stopped taking major steps. Recently she issued a new regulation banning the export of marine sand, sending jitters to the exporters concerned. Earlier, she involved the State Logistics Agency (Bulog) again in sugar import activities. Now, she is dealing with the fertilizer business. On February 11, she issued Decree No. 70/MPP/Kep/2003 on supplies and distribution of subsidized ferti

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