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Indonesia's Komite Pengamanan Perdagangan Indonesia (KPPI, the Indonesian Trade Safeguard Committee) concluded a safeguard investigation finding that a surge in cotton woven fabric imports was causing serious injury to the domestic weaving industry. The Ministry of Finance gave the finding legal effect through Peraturan Menteri Keuangan (PMK) No. 98 of 2025, imposing a Bea Masuk Tindakan Pengamanan (BMTP) — a specific, per-kilogram safeguard duty — on 16 eight-digit HS codes spanning the 5208/5209/5210/5211/5212 cotton-fabric tariff lines (BTKI 2022 nomenclature), including HS 5208.21.00, 5208.22.00, 5208.31.90, 5208.33.00, 5209.11.90, 5209.21.00, 5209.31.00, 5209.49.00, 5210.21.00, 5210.32.00, 5210.59.90, 5211.31.00, 5211.59.90, 5212.15.90, 5212.21.00 and 5212.23.00.
The duty took effect 10 January 2026 and runs for three years (to 9 January 2029), declining annually: Rp3,300/kg in year 1; Rp3,100/kg in year 2 (Rp2,800/kg for HS 5209.11.90 and 5212.21.00); and Rp2,900/kg in year 3 (Rp2,600/kg for those same two HS codes). The KPPI's own published notice mistakenly renders the effective-year digit as "2025" (likely a copy-paste error carried over from the PMK's own year-number, "98 Tahun 2025") — but Indonesian financial/trade press (DDTC, Bisnis.com, published 5–8 January 2026) is unanimous that the duty is newly effective as of 10 January 2026, consistent with the three-year 2026–2029 window and the fact that KPPI's own announcement was itself published in January 2026 describing the duty as a new measure.
Per the PMK's exemption annex, 122 countries are excluded from the duty (including Brazil, Fiji, South Korea, Kuwait, Malaysia and Singapore, per DDTC's reporting) — a WTO-consistent developing-country/de-minimis carve-out common to Indonesian BMTP measures. Exempted-country importers must submit a certificate of origin; failure to substantiate origin subjects the shipment to the duty regardless of the exemption list.
This is the first Indonesian trade-remedy/safeguard action on the IPTM register — prior Indonesian entries covered nickel/tin/copper/bauxite export controls and industrial-policy instruments (smelter mandates, royalty tiers, TKDN local-content rules), but none from KPPI's trade-defence authority.
woven-fabric import flow, protecting Indonesia's domestic weaving segment of the textile value chain.
2025-26 wave of non-US/EU trade-remedy actions (Vietnam MOIT/TRAV, South Africa ITAC, Mexico SE/UPCI) re-pricing manufacturing-input flows outside the saturated US/EU/BR trade-remedy corridor.
design intended to give the domestic industry a tapering adjustment window rather than a permanent tariff wall.
date) referenced in early discovery notes (opened ~27 Oct 2023, hearing ~29 Nov 2023) was not independently re-confirmed against a primary KPPI case-file page in this filing pass — treat as indicative pending verification.
page is corrected in a future republication, or whether a formal erratum is issued.