Preshipment inspection

Notifications under Article 5 of the Agreement on Preshipment Inspection

Questions from the United States to Indonesia
regarding document G/PSI/Q/IDN/1

Indonesia

The following communication, dated 13 May 2022, is being circulated at the request of the delegation of the United States.

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The United States thanks Indonesia for its responses in G/PSI/Q/IDN/1 to the questions posed in G/VAL/W/314 and continues to await Indonesia's responses to additional questions posed in G/VAL/W/357.

As a follow-up to the responses in G/PSI/Q/IDN/1, the United States seeks written replies to the following questions:

1.     With regard to the response to Question 2, Indonesia indicates it will consider "possibilities, suggestions, and recommendations" on its regulations. An important reason for notifying measures to the WTO is to receive suggestions and recommendations from other WTO Members on the functioning of those measures and their impact on trade. For example, has Indonesia considered asking importers to upload the documents, currently being reviewed by surveyors, into its single window system for review by all relevant agencies and to use an automated risk management system to administer them? This would be concordant with Article 7 and 8 of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) and would be a more "effective and efficient" way for these measures to function. Would Indonesia please notify an updated version of its "General Provisions on Verification of Technical Examination for Trade" to the WTO under Article 5 of the Agreement on Preshipment Inspection in order to receive "possibilities, suggestions, and recommendations" on this measure?

2.     With regard to the response to Question 6, would Indonesia please notify Law No.17 of 2006 which amends the Customs Law No. 10 of 1995?