Industry Ministry Proposes Permit to Import 1.5 Tons of Raw Sugar
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Minggu, 22 Maret 2015 11:06 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Industry Ministry has proposed permits to import raw sugar for the need of refined sugar industries to the Trade Ministry.
In the letter, the government recommended a permit for exporting 1.5 tons of ton for the demand in the second and third quarter of 2015.
"We’ve proposed the permits to import raw sugar. The amount is in line with the demands from food and beverage industries,” said Director General of Agro Industry of Industry Ministry, Panggah Susanto on Friday, March 20, 2015.
According to him, the ministry was forced to propose the permit for two quarters at the same time, the period of April-June and the period of July-September because the ministry does not have much time left to provide supply in those two periods.
For the record, for the period of January-March of 2015, import permit was only for 600,000 tons, while in the period of April-June and July-September import permit is 750,000 tons respectively.
He further said that the measure was made to anticipate the surge in the demand before Ied Day this year.
AYU PRIMA SANDI