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Indonesia's Komite Pengamanan Perdagangan Indonesia (KPPI, the Trade Safeguard Committee) opened an extension investigation into the existing safeguard duty on expansible polystyrene (EPS) resin — HS 3903.11.10 (BTKI 2022 nomenclature), a granular petrochemical raw material used to manufacture styrofoam — on 22 July 2024, following a petition from domestic producer PT Kofuku Plastik Indonesia. The original three-year safeguard (PMK 174/2021, effective 24 December 2021) was due to lapse and KPPI's investigation tested whether the domestic industry still required protection.
KPPI's finding — that the domestic industry remained mid-adjustment and still faced a threat of serious injury — was given legal effect through Peraturan Menteri Keuangan (PMK) No. 29 of 2025, signed and promulgated 14 May 2025 and effective 23 May 2025 (seven working days after promulgation), extending the BMTP for a second three-year term running to 22 May 2028. The duty is a specific (per-kilogram) levy that declines annually: Rp2,352.478/kg in year one (23 May 2025–22 May 2026), Rp2,328.473/kg in year two (23 May 2026–22 May 2027), and Rp2,304.468/kg in year three (23 May 2027–22 May 2028) — equivalent to roughly Rp2.35–2.30 million per metric tonne.
Taiwan (47.6% import share), China (38.0%) and Vietnam (13.5%) are the three dominant source countries for Indonesian EPS imports and all three remain subject to the duty; none of the three appears on the regulation's developing-country/de-minimis exemption annex, which per press reporting excludes roughly 124 other countries (importers from exempted countries must still submit a certificate of origin to claim the carve-out).
Note: the queue candidate that seeded this filing carried an incorrect effective-date range (23 December 2024–22 December 2027, apparently conflating the investigation-opening year with the eventual duty effective-date). Cross-verified reporting (KPPI's own investigation press release, two independent DDTC News articles, and the Ministry of Finance legal database entry for PMK 29/2025) is unanimous that the extended duty took legal effect 23 May 2025, three-year term to 22 May 2028; that corrected date range is used in this filing's frontmatter.
protecting Indonesia's domestic expandable-polystyrene/styrofoam manufacturing segment of the plastics-petrochemical value chain.
register, alongside the recently filed cotton woven-fabric safeguard (PMK 98/2025) — both use the same declining specific-duty design and certificate-of-origin exemption mechanism, suggesting this is a standard Indonesian BMTP template rather than a one-off.
actions the register is capturing (Vietnam MOIT/TRAV, South Africa ITAC, Mexico SE/UPCI, Malaysia MITI) — a China/Taiwan/Vietnam manufacturing-input flow being re-priced by a mid-sized emerging-market trade-defence authority rather than a G7 one.
back-filing as its own historical action, or whether it should instead be added here as a responds_to predecessor once a primary source for the 2021 PMK is located (not verified in this filing pass).
(kppi.kemendag.go.id/penyelidikan/penyelidikan-berjalan/expansible-polystyrene-eps) — which 404'd during this filing pass — has moved to a new URL or is temporarily down. </content>