The Ministry Of Trade Has Successfully Carried Out 21,054 Bal Of Illegal Imported Used Clothing Worth Rp120.65 Billion

The Ministry of Trade has succeeded in taking various actions against illegal imported goods throughout the Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka government. This action includes 21,054 balpus (ballpres) worth IDR 120.65 billion in used clothing products.

The Director General of PKTN of the Ministry of Trade, Moga Simatupang, said that importing used clothing was prohibited, this was reaffirmed by the Ministry of Trade by the issuance of the Minister of Trade Regulation (Permendag) Number 40 of 2022 concerning Amendments to the Minister of Trade Regulation Number 18 of 2021 concerning Prohibited Exports and Goods Prohibited from Imports.

As an effort to implement this policy, the Ministry of Trade consistently synergizes with various relevant agencies in supervising and taking action against the importation of used clothing.

"The Ministry of Trade continues to be committed to keeping the domestic market healthy and fair. Every step of supervision and prosecution taken is part of efforts to protect consumers and ensure that the goods in circulation meet the provisions," he said in an official statement, Wednesday, October 29.

In addition to used clothes, the Ministry of Trade secured various other illegal imported products with a value of Rp. 15 billion. These items include 297,781 units of electronic products consisting of 3,506 units of rice cooker, 4,518 units of audio video equipment such as active loudspeakers and television, 60,366 units of fans, and 210,040 units of lighting fitting.

Next, 480 luminary units, 1,140 units of electric cassers, 1,894 units of air frying (air fry), 87 electric cable rollers, 15,250 primary battery units, and 500 units of electric cylinders. Other product categories that were also prosecuted were children's toys with a total of 297,522 units, footwear with 1,277 units, sheets with 100 units, and motor vehicle rims with 905 units.

The action was also taken against more than 1.6 million nonstandard engineering and steel products. These products include the breaking of miniature circuits (MCB) without the Standard Mark Usage Product Certificate (SPPT-SNI) and the Goods Registration Number (NPB) of 68,256 units, electric saws, electric drills, electric geerinda, and fast machines without the Registration Number Security, Safety, Health, and Environment (K3L) as many as 9,763 units, as well as dust dumplings without a Manual List and Guarantee Card (MKG) as many as 26 units.

The Ministry of Trade also secured 600 gloves that violated the obligation of the Indonesian language label. Also secured 578 iron processors, 997,269 bolts of various sizes, and 4,215 sharing which did not have documents from the origin of the goods.

It did not stop there, a total of 66 axes and 77 two-hand scissors were found to have violated the provisions that goods were prohibited from importing. The value of the nonstandard technical and steel products reached Rp18.85 billion.

Moga said that the Ministry of Trade has also succeeded in uncovering the practice of assembling and trading illegal smartphone products (smartphones) with an economic value of IDR 17.62 billion. The disclosure consists of 5,100 units of smartphones of various brands and 747 collies containing accessories, covers (casing), and chargers.

Based on the results of routine supervision carried out, the Ministry of Trade also secured 83,306 pieces of iron sheet zinc (BjLS) steel products and 1,251 tons of BCL raw materials in the form of 290 galvanis steel coils (galvanized steel coils) of various brands worth Rp. 23.76 billion. In addition, the Ministry of Trade secured 16,000 floor ceramic cartons and 610,000 food and drink utensils (tableware) worth Rp. 9.8 billion.

The government's commitment to protecting domestic industries and markets is also realized through the synergy of supervision with the Certain Goods Supervision Task Force (Satgas) implemented by the Import Commercial Administration, especially for textile products and textile products (TPT). The results of surveillance at various locations reveal TPT products without Import Approval (PI), Surveyor Report (LS), and K3L registration with a value of Rp90 billion.

This commitment was also shown by the Technical Implementation Unit (UPT) of the Commercial Order Supervision Center (BPTN) in four regions, namely Medan, Bekasi, Surabaya, and Makassar. The results of BPTN supervision in the four regions have found a number of imported commodities that do not comply with the provisions with the customs value of Rp. 26.48 billion.

According to Moga, the Ministry of Trade continues to carry out trade supervision of imported commodities after goods go through the customs (post-border) area. This is done to ensure that imported goods circulating in the domestic market have complied with the provisions of the legislation.

"We always urge all business actors to comply with regulations related to importation and circulation of goods. Trading is not just for profit, but must comply with the provisions of the applicable legislation," added Moga.